. Electric railway journal . with the stories, usually unwritten, ofmen whose advancement was based upon their deter-mination to make themselves useful along lines previ-ously unrealized. 702 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [March 28, 1914. Montreal & Southern Counties Railway A 600-Volt Electrification of the Central Vermont Railway South from Montreal, and the First Catenary Line in Canada One of the most important electrifications in Can-ada now partly completed is that of certain parts ofthe Waterloo branch of the Central Vermont Railway,a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk system. These rou
. Electric railway journal . with the stories, usually unwritten, ofmen whose advancement was based upon their deter-mination to make themselves useful along lines previ-ously unrealized. 702 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [March 28, 1914. Montreal & Southern Counties Railway A 600-Volt Electrification of the Central Vermont Railway South from Montreal, and the First Catenary Line in Canada One of the most important electrifications in Can-ada now partly completed is that of certain parts ofthe Waterloo branch of the Central Vermont Railway,a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk system. These routesextending south of Montreal are not for heavy freightservice but are really to be extensions to a suburban however, was left to the advice of Bion J. Arnold, con-sulting and constructing engineer. Mr. Arnold hadbeen responsible for the single-phase electrification ofthe Sarnia tunnel, and he, too, was at first disposedto favor single-phase for the new work. He con-cluded in favor of 600-volt , however, on a closer. Electric Lines, in operation = Electric Lines, under construction-Electric Lines, proposed extension—;Steam Lines, in operation Waterloo Montreal & Southern Counties Railway—Route and Connections of Road Electric Ry. Journal type electric railway. The parent line of the systemis a 7-mile section between Montreal, St. Lambert andLongueuil, over the Victoria Jubilee bridge and alongthe southern bank of the St. Lawrence River, oppositeMontreal, and this line and the others hereinafterdescribed are operated under the name of the Mon-treal & Southern Counties Railway. REASONS FOR CHOOSING 600-VOLT DIRECT CURRENT When the question of electrifying the steam trackarose, the Grand Trunk Railway was very strongly in examination of the conditions. In the first place, thecompany had already in service in the vicinity of and Longueuil a 600-volt system withten comparatively new eighty-passenger motor andthree motor work cars. In the second place, the 700
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