. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lever,the driver could, when running down a A New Tunnel Over the Alps. The Alp Mountains, which stand up asa towering harrier between and Italy, are of special interest torailroad men, owing to the vast engineer-ing work done in leading two great rail-ways partly over the mountains and thenpiercing the summit with a long first of these tunnels, piercing MountCcnis, was begun in 1857 and finished in1S70. It is 7 miles and feet other tunnel, the St. Gothard. op
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lever,the driver could, when running down a A New Tunnel Over the Alps. The Alp Mountains, which stand up asa towering harrier between and Italy, are of special interest torailroad men, owing to the vast engineer-ing work done in leading two great rail-ways partly over the mountains and thenpiercing the summit with a long first of these tunnels, piercing MountCcnis, was begun in 1857 and finished in1S70. It is 7 miles and feet other tunnel, the St. Gothard. opened that it will be completed in the four and ahalf years remaining to the Jura-SimplonRailroad Company under its contract. Thecompany has every incentive to carry outthe work, if possible, in less than contracttime, for it will receive an extra thousanddollars for every day it saves, while thesame amount will be deducted from theprice to be paid for the tunnel for everyday of delay beyond the stipulated work will differ from that of theMount Ccnis and St Gothard tunnels, as. .\.\ ENGINE WHOSE DRIVERS WERE STUCK WHEN RUNNING DOWN HILL. bank, lift the driving wheels off the railsand let the engine coast on the leadingand trailing, something after the freewheel fad in bicycles. Needless to say,this patent was a failure, and the attach-ment was, after some experiment, re-moved. Now, too light for main linework, she is spending her declining the Methven, or Drumtochty. branch,rendered famous by Ian Maclaren in hisKailyard stories. The engine has cylin-ders l6j^ X 22 inches, and driving wheels■7 feet in diameter. We are indebted toMr. Sam A. Forbes, of Perth, Scotland,for both the photograph and description. in 1S80. is 95^4 miles long, and its construc-tion involved the overcoming of extraor-dinary physical obstacles. Now they aregoing to have another tunnel under whatis known as the Simplon route. There isa famous road over this mountain whichwas begun in 1800
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