. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . at $3,500,000 a week. The carriers re-ferred to are the Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh , Reading, Central R. R. of New Jersey, Le-high 8i Hudson, Lehigh & New England and the Penn--sylvania. The volume of traffic has been decreased 40,000cars weekly. The Virginian Begins Electric Operation Ceremonies in Connection With Official Inauguration of Electric Service Electric operation on the Virginian Railway was in-augurated on September 21. Four triple-motive powerunit locomotives, co
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . at $3,500,000 a week. The carriers re-ferred to are the Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh , Reading, Central R. R. of New Jersey, Le-high 8i Hudson, Lehigh & New England and the Penn--sylvania. The volume of traffic has been decreased 40,000cars weekly. The Virginian Begins Electric Operation Ceremonies in Connection With Official Inauguration of Electric Service Electric operation on the Virginian Railway was in-augurated on September 21. Four triple-motive powerunit locomotives, comprising twelve of the 36 units in-cluded in the original order are now on the s\stem andon ]\Iondav, September 21. the first official run was electrification was briefly referred to and a descrip- The electric locomotives were able to get away to aflying start without difficulty and to bring the speed up to14 miles an hour well within the predetermined periodof 3 minutes. Signals for stopping and starting were transmittedfrom one locomotive to the other by radio and this proved. Heavy Coal Train Drawn by Electric Locon Passing Similar Heavy Train Drawn tiy Ste Locomotives on the Virginian Railway tiou of the electric locomotives was published in the June,1925, issue of Railway and Locomotive Engineering. Tonnage trains are now operated from Alullens, \\ .Va., up the per cent grade to Clarks Gap, W. Va.,a distance of about 15 miles. At present four electriclocomotives are Ijeing used on this grade. The overheadconstruction is compteted for several miles beyond Prince-ton, W. Va., which is 36 miles from Mullens. Whencompleted the electrified division will extend to Roanoke. As a preliminary to placing the electric locomotivesofficiallv in revenue service a steam train of approxi-mately6,000 tons trailing load was hauled up the cent grade between Elmore and Clarks Gap on Sep-tember 20th. In this operation the 2-8-8-2 road locomo-tive and two 2-10-10-2 pushe
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