. Electric railway journal . MOST POWERFULHIGH-SPEED ELEC-TRIC LOCOMOTIVES. During the past year theGeneral Electric Companyhas developed the mostpowerful high-speed elec-tric lomoeotives so farbuilt. Early in the yearthe New York Central& Hudson River Railroad Company ordered ten ofthese engines, weighing 100 tons each, for terminalservice out of New York City. Recently a contractwas awarded for six additional similar locomotives,but more powerful and weighing no tons each. The100-ton machines will develop 1460 hp. continuously, 2400-VOLT ELECTRI-FICATION OF THEBUTTE, ANACONDA &PACIFIC—This y
. Electric railway journal . MOST POWERFULHIGH-SPEED ELEC-TRIC LOCOMOTIVES. During the past year theGeneral Electric Companyhas developed the mostpowerful high-speed elec-tric lomoeotives so farbuilt. Early in the yearthe New York Central& Hudson River Railroad Company ordered ten ofthese engines, weighing 100 tons each, for terminalservice out of New York City. Recently a contractwas awarded for six additional similar locomotives,but more powerful and weighing no tons each. The100-ton machines will develop 1460 hp. continuously, 2400-VOLT ELECTRI-FICATION OF THEBUTTE, ANACONDA &PACIFIC—This year haswitnessed the successfuloperation of the firststeam railway in theworld electrified at 2400volts, direct current. Theequipment of the Butte,Anaconda & Pacific Railway by the General ElectricCompany represents one of the largest installationsof electrical equipment on a road formerly operatedby steam. Two substations, one at Butte and theother at Anaconda, each equipped with two
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