. Electric railway journal . s that it will be able to make a clear statementas to the relative value of freight and express and other traffichandled by electric railways. Schemes have been sanctioned for the construction of under-ground electric railways at Buenos Ayres, the concessions hav-ing been secured by or with the co-operation of the Anglo-Ar-gentine Tramway Company and the Compagnie Generale deTramways de Buenos Ayres, of Brussels, Belgium. It is stated that the Padua-Eusina Railway, Italy, proposes toelectrify that section of its line between Malcontenta andMestre. 980 ELECTRIC RAIL
. Electric railway journal . s that it will be able to make a clear statementas to the relative value of freight and express and other traffichandled by electric railways. Schemes have been sanctioned for the construction of under-ground electric railways at Buenos Ayres, the concessions hav-ing been secured by or with the co-operation of the Anglo-Ar-gentine Tramway Company and the Compagnie Generale deTramways de Buenos Ayres, of Brussels, Belgium. It is stated that the Padua-Eusina Railway, Italy, proposes toelectrify that section of its line between Malcontenta andMestre. 980 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXV. Xo. 23. THE MONTREUX-GLION ELECTRIC RACK RAILWAY The practice of Switzerland of combining a rack railwaywith one of the ordinary type is exemplified in a strikingway by an electric line in Switzerland built between Montreuxand Glion by the Oerlikon Machine Works and put in opera-tion about a year ago. Montreux is situated on Lake Geneva,the shores of which at this point rise precipitously so that the. Station at Montreux town of Glion which is but a little distance in a direct linefrom Montreux is much higher in altitude. The line is only i% miles in length and in this distance as-cends a height of 964 ft. The track is laid with two gagesso that the locomotives can haul as trailers the cars of eitherone of two steam railways which reach its terminals. On theline there are several tunnels, one of which is 1260 ft. inlength and traverses three-quarters of a circle in the rock, 260
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