. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . VARI) AT VICTORIA. YA.—VIRGINIAN RAILWAY. today a justified model of engineeringwork. Further east there is anotherviaduct 1,650 feet in length. The traffic of the Virginian Railway islogically its own. Whatever competi-tion there has been with existing roadsis merely incidental and has not reducedthe tonnage of these roads, but hasrather increased them owing to the in-flux of population in the regions that havebeen opened up by the Virginian railway. ceived last year 3,800,000 tons, supplied
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . VARI) AT VICTORIA. YA.—VIRGINIAN RAILWAY. today a justified model of engineeringwork. Further east there is anotherviaduct 1,650 feet in length. The traffic of the Virginian Railway islogically its own. Whatever competi-tion there has been with existing roadsis merely incidental and has not reducedthe tonnage of these roads, but hasrather increased them owing to the in-flux of population in the regions that havebeen opened up by the Virginian railway. ceived last year 3,800,000 tons, suppliedby vessels from the great port of Hamp-ton Roads, and the increase in the futurewill doubtless keep pace with the grow-ing requirements of the country. The Swiss National Exhibition. In spite of the appalling clash of arms in Europe it is gratifying to observe that considerable interest has been shown in the very comprehensive exhibition cover-. GLEN LYN BRIDGE, NEW* RIVER. THE LONGEST BRIDGE ON THE VIRGINIANRAILWAY. LENGTH, 2,155 FEET. It may be added that the great andgrowing railway owes its existence tothe mind and courage of Mr. Henry , the first president of the road,and who died in 1909 a few months be-fore the road went on an operating enterprise which he so wisely con-ceived and so firmly established is beingcarried on with a high intelligence anda fixed resolution worthy of its first pro- ing railway rolling stock, which is beingheld in Berne, the capital of the Swissrepublic. The Swiss Federal Railroadsare the largest exhibitors. Among otherexhibits is the first locomotive (nowabout seventy years old) ever used inSwitzerland, side by side with the newestand most modern locomotives employedfor express trains on the St. Gothardline. The new Lotschberg Railway show their horsepower electric engines,which, being the most powerful locomo-tivi oi the kind in the world, proveof utmost interest to t
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