Manawatu Railway Company
The first of the two large tender engines imported by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company from Messrs Nasmyth, Wilson and Co., has been erected at the Company's ■workshop, and steam was got up a day or' two ago for the first time. The result was very satisfactory, the large ten-wheeled tender although a little stiff at first, doing a short trial run in good style. The engine 'presents a remarkable appearance beside the small locomotives hitherto in use here, though, of course, it is nothing to the immense machines now employed on English express trains. Its design has many American features; indeed," but for' the trailing bogie (which appears to us of little value) it is to-all: intends and purposes of the American "Mogul" class. Its proportions have been carefully adjusted «o as to give it a high degree of tractive force, and if its steaming capabilities prove equal to its theoretical power it should put very heavy loads at a high rate of speed. The second engine of this class is now being landed 'from the Opawa, and will be erected immediately. With these two potent additions to their stock the Company will be well off for locomotive power,— -N.Z. Times.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 111, 27 February 1886, Page 3
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206Manawatu Railway Company Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 111, 27 February 1886, Page 3
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