. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . in 1914,including the stowing and improvementof lakes, the water power of Switzerlandis capable of producing an energy equalto 2,173,000horsepower. If old plantswere replaced by new ones it is evenestimated that the highest efficiency of the total water power reserves could beraised to as much as 8,000,000 horse-power. On January 1, 1914, the electricpower already in use in Switzerlandamounted to 887,000 horsepower. The Swiss Confederation owns some1,800 miles of the entire railway systemof the country, which covers 3,216 the 1,416 miles owned
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . in 1914,including the stowing and improvementof lakes, the water power of Switzerlandis capable of producing an energy equalto 2,173,000horsepower. If old plantswere replaced by new ones it is evenestimated that the highest efficiency of the total water power reserves could beraised to as much as 8,000,000 horse-power. On January 1, 1914, the electricpower already in use in Switzerlandamounted to 887,000 horsepower. The Swiss Confederation owns some1,800 miles of the entire railway systemof the country, which covers 3,216 the 1,416 miles owned by privatecompanies 622 miles are already elec-trical, but only an insignificant percent-age of the Government railroads has sofar been operated by electricity. The first important Federal s+andard-gauge road to be chosen for electrificationwas the Gothard Railway, one of the im-portant international highways, featuringmoreover in many sections the brilliantlyconceived engineering of mountain rail-ways. The electrification of the sixty. 2,000 horsepower electric locoriiun\ i 31 32 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE eight miles section Erstfeld-BelUnzonawas approved in 1913 and it is expectedthat it will be opened this fall. Thissection, with twenty-eight per cent, of itslength consisting of tunnels and a gradeof to per cent, for twenty-fivemiles, was chosen for an experiment be-cause of its enormous traffic with Italy,which caused large consumption of coalwith resulting smoke in the tunnels. The sections Bellinzona-Chiasso andErstfeld-Lucerne are expected to followin 1921 and the consulting experts havefound that the big power stations atAmsteg and Riton, the first yielding26,000 horsepower and the latter 32,000horsepower, will also suffice for thesehues, even if the traffic should increasesome sixty to seventy per cent. Anotherseries of plants yielding 70,000 horse-power is planned for eastern and centralSwitzerland. The cost of electrification of the Erst-feld-
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