. Electric railway journal . oroughtechnical study of the situation. In spite of spirited rail-way building in recent years, Norways railway system isfar from complete. The electric system could thereforebe tried on new lines without considering the expense ofreplacing earlier steam equipment. The unsatisfactorytraffic returns of Norwegian railroads in general make itdesirable to have some cheap form of motive power, apossibility which is offered by the numerous waterfalls inNorway. The State railways have prepared some pro-visional plans for the electrification of a number of newand old railw
. Electric railway journal . oroughtechnical study of the situation. In spite of spirited rail-way building in recent years, Norways railway system isfar from complete. The electric system could thereforebe tried on new lines without considering the expense ofreplacing earlier steam equipment. The unsatisfactorytraffic returns of Norwegian railroads in general make itdesirable to have some cheap form of motive power, apossibility which is offered by the numerous waterfalls inNorway. The State railways have prepared some pro-visional plans for the electrification of a number of newand old railways, including the Christiania-Drammen Rail-way. Norway now has privately owned electric railwaysystems as follows: Hafslund-Sunnesund (transport),Christiania-Hohnkollen, Thamshavn-Lokken, Notodden-Tinoset and Rollag-Staalheim. The two last-named linesare still under construction. 66o ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXVIII, No. 15. WIRING OF MULTIPLE-UNIT TRAIN OF PUBLIC SERVICERAILWAY Resistance Points--Runniug Points TiHI. Wiring Diagram of Trailer Car Brief reference is made on page 607 of the ConventionEeverse Section of this issue to the multiple-unit train which thePublic Service Railway of New Jersey now has in opera-tion in Jersey City, N. J. An illustration of this train isshown on plate XXXVIII in the Convention Section. Thediagrams here reproduced show the wiring of the train andthe motor connections. The train consists of two double-truck closed single-endcars, with 25-ft. bodies and prepayment platforms. On eachtruck is mounted one GE-57 motor of 50 hp. The leadingcar is equipped with a K-35 controller, through which allfour motors are operated, while the trailer car is fitted with a K-11 controlleron the front plat-form, throughwhich the twomotors under thetrailer may be op-erated when thetrailer is detachedand run as an indi-vidual unit. Thefour motors areconnected up withNos. 1 and 2 underthe leading car andNos. 3 and 4 underthe trailer. The leads to motors Nos
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