. Electric railway journal . Bellinzona-Mesocco Railway—EntranceMountain Side to Tunnel on tween Switzerland and Italy, but its importance greatly de-creased after the opening of the St. Gothard tunnel. The popu-lation of the two valleys now hardly exceeds 5500, but it wasbelieved that an electric line could be made a profitable Bellinzona-Mesocco Railway—Bridge Over the MoesaRiver minimum radius of curvature 80 meters (263 ft.). The dif-ference between the highest and lowest points on the line is619 meters (2031 ft.). Between Lostallo and Mesocco there isa 6 per cent grade fully k
. Electric railway journal . Bellinzona-Mesocco Railway—EntranceMountain Side to Tunnel on tween Switzerland and Italy, but its importance greatly de-creased after the opening of the St. Gothard tunnel. The popu-lation of the two valleys now hardly exceeds 5500, but it wasbelieved that an electric line could be made a profitable Bellinzona-Mesocco Railway—Bridge Over the MoesaRiver minimum radius of curvature 80 meters (263 ft.). The dif-ference between the highest and lowest points on the line is619 meters (2031 ft.). Between Lostallo and Mesocco there isa 6 per cent grade fully km ( miles) long on which it. Bellinzona-Mesocco Railway—Motor Car, Trailer and Freight Car Near Bellinzona Station taking because of the large tourist traffic and the transportationof lumber and local farming products. The last portion of theroad was placed in service late in 1907. The Bellinzona ter-minal is the more important as it is only 1 mile from the Railway. Owing to the great additional cost whichwould have been required, there is no direct connection betweenthe two stations in spite of the large interchange of line is a single track 31^ km ( miles) long. It is was necessary to lay curves of the minimum radius a large number of viaducts, tunnels, cuts and fillswas required in constructing the road. Among the most in-teresting of the viaducts is one shown in an accompanying illus-tration. This crosses the Moesa River km ( miles) fromBellinzona and consists of two 30-meter (98 ft. 5 in.) stonearches. An illustration shows that a tunnel was cutthrough
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