. Electric railway journal . until reaching the tunnel at the summit,when he exclaimed: This is the first time I ever sawthe inside of this tunnel. Having ridden through tun-nels in the cab of a steam engine, the writer can fullyappreciate how it affected an old steam engineer to rideon an electric locomotive for the first time and to befree from the gases, steam and smoke that make tun-nel operation with the steam engine hazardous, as wellas most uncomfortable for the crew. On the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul the operationof the electric locomotives has been taken over by theregular steam en
. Electric railway journal . until reaching the tunnel at the summit,when he exclaimed: This is the first time I ever sawthe inside of this tunnel. Having ridden through tun-nels in the cab of a steam engine, the writer can fullyappreciate how it affected an old steam engineer to rideon an electric locomotive for the first time and to befree from the gases, steam and smoke that make tun-nel operation with the steam engine hazardous, as wellas most uncomfortable for the crew. On the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul the operationof the electric locomotives has been taken over by theregular steam engine crews after proper instructions,and it is interesting to note how smoothly the changefrom steam to electricity has been accomplished. Ofcourse, the handling of the air brakes is identical withsteam-engine practice, although in this matter of brak-ing the use of the air brakes is restricted to the stop-ping of trains, as the electric brakes are used ex-clusively to hold the trains at constant speed on thedown
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