. Electric railway journal . elt. These circumstances render peculiarly timely the pub-lication this week of several articles containing first-hand information of the Paulista electrification and thesituation in Europe. From these it is evident that theelectrified railroads in this country are largely in thelead in this field. The Paulista has adopted Americanapparatus and methods, so that the installation on its Campinas-Jundiahy sectioncan hardly be consideredforeign. Across the Atlantic oper-ating conditions are so dif-ferent from those in theUnited States that compar-isons can only be made
. Electric railway journal . elt. These circumstances render peculiarly timely the pub-lication this week of several articles containing first-hand information of the Paulista electrification and thesituation in Europe. From these it is evident that theelectrified railroads in this country are largely in thelead in this field. The Paulista has adopted Americanapparatus and methods, so that the installation on its Campinas-Jundiahy sectioncan hardly be consideredforeign. Across the Atlantic oper-ating conditions are so dif-ferent from those in theUnited States that compar-isons can only be made withdifficulty. However, able en-gineers and transportationmen are vigorously at workthere and real progress isbeing made. Their solutionsof their problems will be ofservice here. And they arelearning that the most eco-nomical carrying of at leastcertain kinds of freightinvolves the use of heavytonnage trains. 1068 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 57, No. 24 Features of Overhead and Other Electrification Details in Switzerlana. 1— Some 750-volt, direct-curreni trolley construction on BerninaBahn. 2— 11,000-volt trolley over turntable in roundhouse. Landquart,Rhatische Bahn. 3— switch in roundhouse at Landquart, connectingacross section break shown in the following fignare. 4— 11,000-volt trolley anchor and section break at roundhousedoor. ,5—15,000-volt, single-phase locomotive and yards at ,Lotschberg Railway. 6 — 11,000-volt, single-phase trolley construction at station,Rhatische Balm. 7— ■ ,000-volt, single-phase trolley construction at Biasca,St. Gotthard Line. „or 8— Hvdraulic power plant at Kandergrund, which under 9» generates 15,000-volt, 15-cycle, single-phase power. June 11, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 1069 Railway Electrification in Europe By J. V. DOBSON and F. E. WYNNE-
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