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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 4 (August 1, 1929)

A High Speed Engine — Sustained Speed of 90 Miles per hour

A High Speed Engine
Sustained Speed of 90 Miles per hour.

Sustained speed of 90 miles an hour for six or more hours, with a load of 7 to 12 coaches, said to make it the fastest locomotive on American railroads, can be achieved by a new streamlined passenger engine developed by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad (says the Christian Science Monitor.)

No. 62, as the locomotive is designated, is of the Pacific type, and wind pressure is reduced to the minimum. No outside pipes show. The air compressor is beneath the trucks, the bell is beneath the pilot, and the front of the pilot has a smoothly curved surface designed to divert the air current along the sides of the boiler.

The engine has a tractive force of 41,600 pounds, weighs 283,300 pounds, is 90 feet long, and has a boiler pressure of 260 pounds, 50 pounds higher than the average passenger locomotive. It was built in the Carbondale (Pa.) shops of the railroad, and was planned for the New York-Montreal run.