. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . VAL MM A VI SM IN 1X1 IN I ARASI, \l RAILWAYS not speaking of making the scenic teeing the battlefields of France, if they dynamic power that runs into fluxions. wonders of the Northwest more accessi- ha should see Switzei Of course they have nothing like Niagara thai rapidly increasing class Who land. Small as the Country is the rail- Falls (O draw upon, lull what tl>. I ! have td the desire to road men I 1h il in volimir is made Up m mill seethe the West that surpass it- Thi fuel pro
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . VAL MM A VI SM IN 1X1 IN I ARASI, \l RAILWAYS not speaking of making the scenic teeing the battlefields of France, if they dynamic power that runs into fluxions. wonders of the Northwest more accessi- ha should see Switzei Of course they have nothing like Niagara thai rapidly increasing class Who land. Small as the Country is the rail- Falls (O draw upon, lull what tl>. I ! have td the desire to road men I 1h il in volimir is made Up m mill seethe the West that surpass it- Thi fuel problem is oi secluded villagi :en waterfalls 13U li\\V AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING May, 1920 \vn, ami the roar of the miilti- tudinoui the dizzy blended with the murmur of the turbines and the harmonious hum of the electric motors. The world moves and - engineers move with it Thirty engines. The highest poinlthe Albula tunnel, 5,998 feet, the tunnelbeing about •» miles in length, andwhich is the longest tunnel ever built for a narrow gage rail than 38 smaller tun-. V1ADUCT ON THE HAVOS-FILISUR LINE OF THE RHAETIAN RAILWAY-SWISS NATIONAL RAILWAYS years ; narrow -:.ise lines were openedhere and there. The railway companywhich built these lines assumed the nameOf Ratische Balm, whatever thatmeans, and undertook the task of develop- nels, nearly all lined with masonry, andwere finished in 1904. The work wenton and the most remarkable engineeringconstruction is the Wiesen Viaduct, par-tially shown on the frontispiece illustra- ing the raili - ad system the Swiss tion, and more fully in the second illus- ^A *^ Mi am. HLti* ■ ■ imf ■ ■ — >-^j^-. u L L-L L • il-i- p -T M *>*>£• •— v* vTr*- - k- *wv * *:yi |Ht » II OMOTIV] of Grisons generally. The nextundertaking was the building of the fa-mous Albula railway leading from Thusisto St, Moritz. This line is 38H miles steepest grade is 3S per cent, and the (bout 20 per cent. These, ofcou
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