. Electric railway journal . er table and standard-gage track to the special-gage section provided for test-ing. Upon reaching this section they were moved offthe transfer trucks over a ramp, the end of which waselevated to the same height as the special trucks. A complete set of tests is made on all locomotives,including regenerative braking and high-speed test the locomotives are transferred to the ship-ping department, where they are dismantled and pre-pared for export shipment. The cab complete is re-moved from the truck and the pantograph, bells, etc.,removed from the cab ro
. Electric railway journal . er table and standard-gage track to the special-gage section provided for test-ing. Upon reaching this section they were moved offthe transfer trucks over a ramp, the end of which waselevated to the same height as the special trucks. A complete set of tests is made on all locomotives,including regenerative braking and high-speed test the locomotives are transferred to the ship-ping department, where they are dismantled and pre-pared for export shipment. The cab complete is re-moved from the truck and the pantograph, bells, etc.,removed from the cab roof. Each truck is shippedseparately without removing the motors from the truckframe. In the case of the passenger locomotive, eachbogie truck is shipped with the adjacent motor truckwithout dismantling. As large vessels were availablefor making this shipment it was not necessary to reducethe locomotive to small packages. As to progress on the construction of these locomo-tives, the first freight machine was ready for test on. AT LEFT, THREE-PHASE TRANSFORMER FOR LOUVEIRASUBSTATION. HIGH-TENSION SIDE At light, case for a single-phase transformer, showing type tobe used at Louveira. (Exterior view of actual case not availableat this time.) March 15. During May three freight and one pas-senger locomotives were shipped and progress on thebalance of the order indicated that similar shipmentswill be made the following two months in accordancewith the terms of the contract. Responsibility for Accident Fixed THE Interstate Commerce Commission in fixing theresponsibility for head-on collision between a pas-senger train and an extra freight train of the NorthernOhio Traction & Light Company near Ravenna, Ohio,on Dec. 8, 1920, resulting in the death of four peopleand injury to seventeen, finds the conductor and motor-man of the extra train to blame. The conductor of theextra train, which was being operated ahead of the reg-ular train, proceeded from a siding at the sound of awhistle from
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