. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . this summit the trainhas to struggle against a rise varyingfrom 106 to 185 feet per mile. PassingRaton, the line drops 1,858 feet, climbs980, falls again 500 feet, and once morestruggles to 7,421 feet at Glorieta, thesecond summit, these violent fluctuations mediately by a stiff ascent to the ArizonaDivide at 7,300 feet in the course of 80miles. The railway falls away from an altitudeof 7,300 feet at the Arizona Divide to 578feet at Needles, the 6,722 difference inlevel being overcome in 600
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . this summit the trainhas to struggle against a rise varyingfrom 106 to 185 feet per mile. PassingRaton, the line drops 1,858 feet, climbs980, falls again 500 feet, and once morestruggles to 7,421 feet at Glorieta, thesecond summit, these violent fluctuations mediately by a stiff ascent to the ArizonaDivide at 7,300 feet in the course of 80miles. The railway falls away from an altitudeof 7,300 feet at the Arizona Divide to 578feet at Needles, the 6,722 difference inlevel being overcome in 600 miles. Afterleaving Needles the line rises 1,930 feet in 326 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. October, 1915. 40 miles, and drops 1,897 feet in 60 milesto Amboy. Then comes a terrific upwardpull to Cajon summit at 3,820 feet alti-tude, involving a climb of feet inabout 90 miles. Then ensues a sudden this end has been the fixed practice ofmaking all official appointments fromamong men already in the service of theroad. When Mr. Ripley was given chargeof the property he brought only three or. ENTERING VERDE CANYON ON THE OAKDALERAILRI IAD. BRANCH OF THE SANTA FE drop of 2,744 feet to San Bernardino, fol-lowed immediately by a rise of 2,949 feetto Tehatchapi summit, which is about 50miles by rail from Cajon summit. For25 miles the rise through the Cajon passvaries between 116 and feet permile, while there are 25 miles of grade at116 feet per mile to the Tehatchapi sum-mit. The distance between Chicago and LosAngeles is 2,263 miles and in 1911 aspecial train was inaugurated, certainlyone of the most luxurious in the country,and the schedule arranged called for thejourney in 63 hours, making an averageof 36 miles per hour from terminus toterminus. The heavy mountain banks,even with extra motive pi >wer of theheaviest kind consumes so much of thetime that on the level stretches the track-velocities of 65 and 70 miles an hour arefrequently attained. In passing over th
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