Excerpt from Wonderland '96

Here has started, at P. M. Every day for many years, from the Union Station at St. Paul, Minn., on the long journey to the Pacific Coast, the transcontinental train of the Northern Pacific Railroad. As it stands in the station waiting the hour of departure it well merits inspection. At its head is a huge ten-wheeled Baldwin locomotive. On each side of this machine there are three driving-wheels sixty two inches in diameter. The ordinary or standard locomotive has but two driving-wheels at each side. This number does not give enough grip on the rails to enable the engine to pull the heavy train easily and rapidly around curves and over heavy grades. An extra pair of driving-wheels is therefore necessary.

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