. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tion,which is usually full of an assured suc-cess that is not always completelyrealized. From a report just published by D. Hall, superintendent of theSt. Clair Tunnel, we reiterate the were previously published in the vice for a few hours each day for two ortil roe weeks before going into full engineers who first assumed controlof these locomotives are still operatingthem, and, with two exceptions, the samefiremen, now called assistants, are withthem. Durin
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tion,which is usually full of an assured suc-cess that is not always completelyrealized. From a report just published by D. Hall, superintendent of theSt. Clair Tunnel, we reiterate the were previously published in the vice for a few hours each day for two ortil roe weeks before going into full engineers who first assumed controlof these locomotives are still operatingthem, and, with two exceptions, the samefiremen, now called assistants, are withthem. During this period not a passen-ger or a member of a train or yard crewhas been injured by electric shocks, buttwo casualties have occurred to work-men in the electric bay. Means are nowused so that it is not necessary to ener-gize the lines in the bay except to movelocomotives into the yard, and as soonas this is done the line in the bay is shutoff. The cost per year for the maintenanceof the four steam locomotives was$21,173, while the average cost for the sixelectric locomotives is $11,131. The cost. PENNSYLVANIA PRIZE ELECTRIC PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE RETURNS FROM SAN FRANCISCO. regular service in the New York Ter-minal and sent to San Francisco for ex-hibition purposes. The reason of the smoke stack is thatthe Pennsylvania and Westinghouse com-panies, wishing to insure its safe andprompt return from San Francisco, havesent with it a personal tracer, and in or-der to afford him comfort when passingthrough severe storms which have re-cently been encountered, a cab was erect-ed, in which was included a small coalstove, hence the smoke stack. The locomotive is rated at 4,000 horse-power and is the largest electric locomo-tive ever built for exclusive passengerservice. It is built in two units, andweighs 156 tons, and will haul a heavyPullman train at a speed of 60 miles perhour. pages of .and Locomotive that the tunnel is 6,032 feet inlength, with approaches total
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