. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ginia, to Norfolk, about 7,000,000 tons of coal perannum. This movement is made in trains of approxi-mately 5,500 tons trailing up the west slo|)e of the moun-tains at a train sjieed of aboiU 7 miles i)er hour and thencedown the east slojie of the mountains and to tidewater intrains of 6,C00 tons trailing. With electric ojierationtrains of tons trailing will Ik- moved u]) the westslope of the mountains at 14 miles jier hour and will liefilled out there to 9,000 tons for movement to tide
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ginia, to Norfolk, about 7,000,000 tons of coal perannum. This movement is made in trains of approxi-mately 5,500 tons trailing up the west slo|)e of the moun-tains at a train sjieed of aboiU 7 miles i)er hour and thencedown the east slojie of the mountains and to tidewater intrains of 6,C00 tons trailing. With electric ojierationtrains of tons trailing will Ik- moved u]) the westslope of the mountains at 14 miles jier hour and will liefilled out there to 9,000 tons for movement to initial oi)eration will lie laid out for an annual move-ment of 8,000,000 net tons of coal and the system will bedesigned to have a capacity for handling mure than twicethis amount. The higher train s])eeds and the greateramount of power which can be a])plied to an individualtrain will enable the movement of more than twice thepresent tonnage over the existing permanent way. The facts that the electric locomotives will be availablefor service during a far greater portion of the time than. Type of Motive Power Unit Being Built for the Virginian The \irginian Railway, built by the late H. H. Rogers, the present steam equipment, that the cost of maintenance extends from Deep Water, West Virginia, through the locomotives is far less than for steam and the rich P(x-ahontas and New River coal fields to tidewater at niore efficient production of power in a stationary plant as Norfolk. It is pre-eminently a coal road with a heavy compared to a locomotive will result in ver>- material eastbound traffic, a large majority of which is coal. The economies. railway has long been recognized as a leader in the move- The system adopted is the alternating-current single-ment of heavy tonnage and in tlie operation of immense Ihase system with an overhead trolley similar to thattrains and the of large locomotives. The Virginian sed with such success on the Norfolk &
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