Railway and Locomotive Engineering . tities at exorbitant prices,so that many of the Brazilian railroads,the Paulista among them, fell back onwood as locomotive fuel. B-azil has, ofcourse, a wonderful supply of hard woodsthat make excellent fuel, but even Brazilcould not keep up with the demand forwood fuel for her railroads, at least fromsources within commercially practicallydistances of the lines. Furthermore, fora given calorific value, vvfood fuel requires ers with frequent falls and without ex-cessively low water periods. What then could be more logical thanthe utilization of this abunda
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . tities at exorbitant prices,so that many of the Brazilian railroads,the Paulista among them, fell back onwood as locomotive fuel. B-azil has, ofcourse, a wonderful supply of hard woodsthat make excellent fuel, but even Brazilcould not keep up with the demand forwood fuel for her railroads, at least fromsources within commercially practicallydistances of the lines. Furthermore, fora given calorific value, vvfood fuel requires ers with frequent falls and without ex-cessively low water periods. What then could be more logical thanthe utilization of this abundant nativepower instead of inferior or expensivecoal? The officials of the Paulista Com-pany have made careful studies, during thelast four years, of the possibilities of elec-trification, and in the spring of 1920 placedtheir orders for the equipment necessaryfor the electrical operation of the 44 kil-ometers of double track between Jundiahyand Campinas. Jundiahy is the southern terminus of thePaulista system, where it joins and ex-. ai*M^-x«»*^^ ^^ -^ BALDWIN-WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES, PAULISTA RAILWAY. BRAZIL ash, and although some experiments havebeen made along the lines of preliminarytreatment and pulverization, railroad menthere are convinced that it cannot be con-sidered a satisfactory fuel. Some years ago, when the South Ameri-can countries were essentially producerswith a comparatively small consuming ca-pacity, ships bound from the United Statesand Europe to South America for cargoesof cereals, meats, coflfee, hides, etc., wereable to carry coal at comparatively lowrates on outbound voyages. Coal couldbe landed at Rio de Janeiro or BuenosAires for $ or $ per ton. Sincethat time, however, the development ofthese countries has been phenomenal—theirconsuming capacity has increased with of their resources and indus-tries, so that the high class outbound car-goes are available. The world-wide short-ages of ships caused by the war has ra
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