. Electric railway journal . o keep the rail-way running in emergencies. The track is being built with long-radius curves and amaximum of per cent grades, which, when completed,will allow the operation of passenger trains at high speedsand the hauling of freight trains of large tonnage. The terri-tory served by this line has not yet been fully developed, soit is not anticipated that the passenger traffic for the next few years will be exceedingly heavy, but it is expected that thefreight traffic in lumber and farm products will tax the capacityof the line. About 20 miles of this new railwa
. Electric railway journal . o keep the rail-way running in emergencies. The track is being built with long-radius curves and amaximum of per cent grades, which, when completed,will allow the operation of passenger trains at high speedsand the hauling of freight trains of large tonnage. The terri-tory served by this line has not yet been fully developed, soit is not anticipated that the passenger traffic for the next few years will be exceedingly heavy, but it is expected that thefreight traffic in lumber and farm products will tax the capacityof the line. About 20 miles of this new railway will becompleted and ready for operation in December of the presentyear, and it is anticipated that construction work on the bal-ance of the line will be well under way by Jan. 1, it has been announced by the officers of the com-pany that if traffic warrants the arrangement, three-car trainswill be operated over the first division of the line on a two-hour schedule. By this arrangement it is thought that ample. British Columbia Electric Railway—Standard Arrangementof Poles provision can be made for handling the freight, which isawaiting the completion of the first division of the line. Included in the rolling stock equipment ordered for thisbranch are three 50-ton electric locomotives, each of whichwill be equipped with four 1 60-hp 600-volt motors. Theselocomotives are to be provided with two trolley poles, whichwere thought necessary to give ample contact surface for gath-ering the requisite amount of current to supply the motorequipments when operating under load. The locomotives areto be built by Dick, Kerr & Company, Ltd., of England, andare to be of sufficient tractive power to haul freight trains madeup of standard M. C. B. freight cars. RAILWAYS OF THE PUGET SOUND DISTRICT RAILWAY SYSTEM OF THE SEATTLEELECTRIC COMPANY SEATTLE, the metropolis of the State of Washington, isbuilt on several long ridges which rise sharply to an ele-vation of from 250 ft. to
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