. The Street railway journal . ng thenearest steam railroad station to , or by theeven longer passage, by diligence or on foot, across the TeteNoire pass from the Swiss village of Martigny. The new elec-tric road which now connects Fayet and Chamonix has beenbuilt by the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railroad Company, one 12 miles, in which distance there are twelve stopping maximum grade is one of 9 per cent for a distance (about 1miles), the other of 8 per cent for a lengthof km (about miles). The remainder of the roadpresents no grades exceeding 2
. The Street railway journal . ng thenearest steam railroad station to , or by theeven longer passage, by diligence or on foot, across the TeteNoire pass from the Swiss village of Martigny. The new elec-tric road which now connects Fayet and Chamonix has beenbuilt by the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railroad Company, one 12 miles, in which distance there are twelve stopping maximum grade is one of 9 per cent for a distance (about 1miles), the other of 8 per cent for a lengthof km (about miles). The remainder of the roadpresents no grades exceeding 2 per cent. Expermients were first made with a mountain Lcomotive,which could be run with or without using the cogwheel, butthis was replaced by a special system of train control, which isvery similar to some of the American multiple unit was devised by Mr. ., one of the engineers of the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railroad, and has proved very satisfac-tory. The question could have been solved, of course, by the. GENERAL VIEW OF ELECTRIC TRAIN, STATION AT CHAMONIX AND MOUNT BLANC of the large trunk railroads of France, and connects at Fayetwith a steam line of the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean RailroadCompany. There are no special features worthy of notice onthe steam-operated part of the line as far as ,but from this point the new electric railway offers a great num-ber of interesting points which will be noticed hereafter. The road is being extended from Chamonix on to Switzer-land, and this work is now under construction by the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Company, but the present article willdeal in detail with only that portion now open for traffic. The traffic on the line is, of course, very irregular, consistingprincipally of tourists, and no traffic was expected during thewinter months. The company was, in fact, authorized by itsconcession to suspend the service during the winter, that is,six months every year, and to charge the fares double tho
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