. The Street railway journal . atus, the Valle Maggia Railway, connecting Lo-carno and Bignasco, Switzerland. This line is km(22 miles) long, is of 1 m. ( ins.) gage and built fortrains weighing up to 55 tons. The operating current, 5000volts, will probably be generated in a 700-kw hydro-elec-tric station 16 km ( miles) from one of the car will be equipped with four 40-hp single-phase mo-tors, and will carry the Huber side-contact collectors, pre-viously described in these columns. This line is the secondsingle-phase line in Switzerland, and its electrification, ac
. The Street railway journal . atus, the Valle Maggia Railway, connecting Lo-carno and Bignasco, Switzerland. This line is km(22 miles) long, is of 1 m. ( ins.) gage and built fortrains weighing up to 55 tons. The operating current, 5000volts, will probably be generated in a 700-kw hydro-elec-tric station 16 km ( miles) from one of the car will be equipped with four 40-hp single-phase mo-tors, and will carry the Huber side-contact collectors, pre-viously described in these columns. This line is the secondsingle-phase line in Switzerland, and its electrification, ac-cording to this system, is the direct result of the OerlikonCompanys successful experimental work on the Seebach-Wettingen line as described in the Street Railway Journalof Feb. 24. 402 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVII. No. 10. AUXILIARY DEVICE FOR DRILLING CURRENT RAIL The accompanying view illustrates the new attach-ment which has been placed upon the Ludlow track-drilling machine for third rail work. This attachment can. r~ !^ ^f ju^ssrf I) 1 TRACK DRILL FOR THIRD-RAIL WORK be applied to any of these track drills now in use. All ofthe parts that connect the machine to the third rail are in-sulated, and hence the drilling can be done without dangerto the operator of the drill. This drill is now manufacturedby the Cleveland Armature Works, of Cleveland, Ohio. *♦* A SIMPLE TROLLEY ANCHOR For over a year, the Western Ohio Railway Company,of Lima, Ohio, has been successfully using a pole-guyingdevice, known as the Wapak anchor, and made by the WapakHollow Ware Company, of Wapakoneta, Ohio. The con-struction of this anchor is apparent from the accompanying
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