Building & engineering news . Two-rnit IBli-Ton Electric Locoiixnivi and Freight Wednesday Jar 12, 1916. BUILDING AND KNGINKRRIXG NEWS tho first > ear i>f oporntlon. liiive beenlierhaps snuiller than is customarywith an undertakingr of like magni-lude, even where standard apparatusis used. After a mileage of from 25,-1100 to 50,000 each the motors of thelocomotives without exception wereround to be in excellent ^niall chang-e in the personnel of themaintenace or operating- departmentsof the railway has been made on ac-count of the electrification and therehas been no redu
Building & engineering news . Two-rnit IBli-Ton Electric Locoiixnivi and Freight Wednesday Jar 12, 1916. BUILDING AND KNGINKRRIXG NEWS tho first > ear i>f oporntlon. liiive beenlierhaps snuiller than is customarywith an undertakingr of like magni-lude, even where standard apparatusis used. After a mileage of from 25,-1100 to 50,000 each the motors of thelocomotives without exception wereround to be in excellent ^niall chang-e in the personnel of themaintenace or operating- departmentsof the railway has been made on ac-count of the electrification and therehas been no reduction in salaries orwages. An extra man with electricalexperience was placed in the shops tosupervise the electrical repairs to thelocomotives and three linemen wereretained for the maintenance of thetiolley system. Witli approximately 20 per cent ofthe total locomotive miles operatedwith five .xteam locomotives, it wasfound that the cost of the latter wasabout 10 per cent of the total co.^t ofall locomotive performance. Some ofthe savings that apparently resultfrom the electric o
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