“6400 LOCO”
HAULAGE OF ROYAL TRAIN IN CANADA. MONTREAL. Canada's largo “fifOO" locomotive | which hauled the Royal Train a disi lance of over 4.900 miles during the [visit of their Majesties to Canada earlier this year, has been described as I “the hit of the show" at the New York ■World’s Fair where it has been on exhibition in the railway section since June. Tnc massive engine, still retaining its royal colours of blue and silver has just returned to service on the Canadian National Railway lines. The locomotive and tender, in working order. weigh in excess of 325 tons and can haul more than ton times its own weight al a speed of 100 miles an hour. In comparison with it. George Steph-1 orison's famous "Rocket’’ won a prize of £509 in 1829 for hauling 12; ions I at a speed of 30 miles an hour. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1939, Page 6
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148“6400 LOCO” Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1939, Page 6
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