. Electric railway journal . ico-Sondrio section there are plenty of them. The overhead construction is rather simple—two trolleywires suspended roughly a couple of feet apart on an ordi-nary bracket construction. The locomotive has but a singletrolley, resembling the bow form in common use on theContinent, but with two sections of tubular contractor per-haps 2^2 in. in diameter, insulated from each other, ofcourse, but carried on the same axial support. One of theaccompanying views is at the station at Lecco and showsone of the electric locomotives. Those which I saw wereall of Gauz manufactu
. Electric railway journal . ico-Sondrio section there are plenty of them. The overhead construction is rather simple—two trolleywires suspended roughly a couple of feet apart on an ordi-nary bracket construction. The locomotive has but a singletrolley, resembling the bow form in common use on theContinent, but with two sections of tubular contractor per-haps 2^2 in. in diameter, insulated from each other, ofcourse, but carried on the same axial support. One of theaccompanying views is at the station at Lecco and showsone of the electric locomotives. Those which I saw wereall of Gauz manufacture, looking very compact and power- 3/6 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. io. ful. The arrangement of drivers is out of the ordinary inthese machines, somewhat different from the earlier typesand much the same as on the latest Ldtschberg locomotivesalready described. The two motor armatures drive crankswhich are united by a jack shaft which carries the maindriving crank, the other drivers being united to it by ordi-. Lecco Railway—Three-Phase Locomotives at Lecco nary connecting rods. It looks queer at first glance, but itkeeps everything pulling together and seems to work admir-ably. There is a single pair of small pilot wheels at eachend of the locomotive, but nearly all the weight is on thedrivers. They are doing considerable work of extensionat Lecco, building a large addition to the three-phase yards,and, escaping the eyes of the officials, I wandered downinto it and investigated. A view is shown of the new con-struction. It is of tubular iron poles bearing carefullytrussed tubular cross members from which are carried the
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