Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
August 25, 1888 Saturday

The New Passenger Engines

One, No. 102, of the two new Baldwin passenger engines which
were received by the DSSkA a few days ago has been set up and
yesterday took a trial run with the berry train with road fore-
man Meehan in chargee No. 103 is now being set up and will be
out in a few days, while yesterday four more were delivered to
the road at Negaunee, having come around from Chicago for some
reason. This will complete the first shipment of six, leaving
nine more of the same pattern to follow from the Baldwin works
as well as 15 Baldwin freight engines. The new locomotives are
the finest and most powerful passenger engines ever seen in the
upper peninsula, excelling everything in use on even the C&NW as
far as the Peninsula division is concerned. ‘The have 18 x 24 inch
cylinders, extension fronts, straight stacks, 5/2 foot drivers and
weight 90,000 lbs. Their water tanks hold 3,000 gallons. They
are fitted with both the Westinghouse air brakes and the Amer-
ican steam brake, have the Baldwin patent steam turret, the De-
troit lubricator, metallic packing, solid side bars and are per-
fect in all other fittings. The fireboxes are placed 22j2 inches
above the rail to avoid trouble with snow during the winter sea-
son here.

The immense size of the engines can hardly be realized from
the figures given above. Standing on the ground, at the level
of the rails, any man of average height can look right through
under the engine boiler, while he can stand on the running board
and not touch the cab roof. From the footboard the cab roof is
about eight feet. These engines it is expected, will pull seven
loaded coaches up the L'Anse hill easily, and can make their 50
miles an hour whenever it is desired. The 15 will cost about
$9,000 a piece, While the 15 freight engines, with 19 x 24 inch
eylinders, will cost even more.

The fact that these engines are so far superior to anything
the road had oefore, or on any other upper peninsula road shows
what the policy of the South Shore is to be. With these engines
and the immense snow plows ordere yesterday, winter traffic
will no longer present the difficulties before experienced. No.
102 will go into serice Monday with engineer Jackson in charge,
displacing “old 23," which will go to the shops for a rest. Mr.
Sedgwick, the superintendent of motive power and machinery, will
hurry the others out as fast as possible.

SRA

Locomotives