. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed in war work as soon as peace isdeclared; the multitude of people thusthrown out of work, in addition to themen of the returning armies, would createunbearable conditions unless suitable em-ployment will have been arranged forthem in advance. He referred to theeconomic advantages of railway electri-fication and was of opinion that this workmight solve the whole question if soontaken up with vigor. The Minister of Public Works, Hon. Carvell, addressing the Canadian So-ciety of Civil Eng
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed in war work as soon as peace isdeclared; the multitude of people thusthrown out of work, in addition to themen of the returning armies, would createunbearable conditions unless suitable em-ployment will have been arranged forthem in advance. He referred to theeconomic advantages of railway electri-fication and was of opinion that this workmight solve the whole question if soontaken up with vigor. The Minister of Public Works, Hon. Carvell, addressing the Canadian So-ciety of Civil Engineers, Ottawa branch,recently, spoke of the necessity of con-serving the energy of our water powers,instead of letting them run to waste, sothat this great store of energy might beemployed in assisting to build up our ownand rebuild other countries when peacecomes. How nicely these two ideals,water power development and railwayelectrification, work together if properlycarried out. \\ ith the view of securing somethingreally worthy of presentation to this im-portant meeting, I wrote recently to an. n □ TYPE OF ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY. exist; seven or eight miles of track havebeen taken up; through freights do notleave the main line track at all; shops andlocomotive houses have disappeared alongwith their staffs, and one electrician re-places the whole old force. An electriclocomotive has made 9,052 miles in onemonth. Although schedules have beenreduced, the electrics have made up morethan two and a half times as manyminutes as steam locomotives—time whichhad been lost on other divisions; 29 percent, of electric passenger trains made uptime in this manner. On a mileage basisalone, the operating costs of the electricsare less than one-half the steam locomo-tive costs. Freight traffic increased 40per cent, shortly after electrification—double tracking would have been neces-sary to handle such increased businessunder steam operation.
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