. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d hate toguess what they would think. place of any importance is Sparks,a division point of the Southern Pacificfour miles this side of Reno. There isa roundhouse there with stalls for 60engines and a large machine shop forheavy repairs to locomotives, employ-ing about 1,500 men. This place isonly 8 years old and is an incorporatedcity. I was soon off for Truchey andthrough the great snow sheds acrossthe mountains. These sheds are 40miles long and are maintained at animmense expense
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d hate toguess what they would think. place of any importance is Sparks,a division point of the Southern Pacificfour miles this side of Reno. There isa roundhouse there with stalls for 60engines and a large machine shop forheavy repairs to locomotives, employ-ing about 1,500 men. This place isonly 8 years old and is an incorporatedcity. I was soon off for Truchey andthrough the great snow sheds acrossthe mountains. These sheds are 40miles long and are maintained at animmense expense to the company, butthey arc as necessary as the rails them-selves. My next trip will probably lethrough the great Sacramento is 700 miles long and 200 miles wideand is the greatest fruit region in theworld. Hundreds of cars on side trackswere loaded with grapes, being sold at$6 a ton. I arrived at Coram, Cali-fornia, on October 2 and found thelargest copper mine in this had 12,000,000 tons of ore in sight,with all modern machinery and agrand supply of water. After installing. l.\i I IXI-,, \ .SW,\NNINGTON RAILWAY, EXGLAND. I IN i;: PULLEYS FOR UOIK IX CEXTRE OF TRACK. the locomotive I was ready to retracemy steps. Going to Sacramento it wasmy privilege to come on the OverlandLimited. This I considered the great-est trip of my life. The train is first-class in every sense of the word. Wearrived in Chicago in 3 days. Thetrain was not over 15 minutes late atany time during the 2,500 mile , Pa. G. H. Jackson. io8 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGh\EERLNG March, 1909. Above the Snow Line in ,\ A. K. Tlic line from Bergen to Gulsvikforms a portion of the eventual trunkcommunication between the former im-portant port and the Norwegian capi-tal, Christiania. The route followed,which was chosen as being the most di-rect and offering the fewest obstaclesfrom ail engineering point of view, 66j^j miles from
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