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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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s, HISTORICAL co Railway and Locomotive Engineering136 Liberty Street, New York RlBSSL Enjineerins A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XLI 136 Liberty Street, New York, December, 1928 No. 12 The Great Northern Electrification Opening of New Cascade Tunnel—Longest in the Western Hemisphere Inaugurates 100 Per Cent Electric Operation Between Skykomish and Wenatchee. By P. A. McGEE, General Engineer, Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Company
The driving of the new 8-mile Cascade Tunnel, and the is, of course, imperative, and with the electrification of relocation of lines through Chumstick Creek on the east- the tunnel, its extension to the limits of the heavy grade ern slope of the Cascade Mountains represent only part sections approaching the tunnel followed as a matter of of the important betterments recently completed on the progressive policy. Cascade Division of the Great Northern Railway. The The Great Northern Railway was a pioneer in the appli-
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3/1-Ton Single Phase Motor Generator Locomotive and Train on the Great Northern Railway electrification of the mountain section of the Cascade cation of electric traction to main line railways. In 1909Division is in itself so great an improvement that it may they electrified the original 2^4 mile Cascade tunnel ex-justly be heralded as a development of the greatest im- tending between Tye and Cascade. This electrificationportance. Train operation through the 8-mile tunnel on consisted of a 3-phase contact system from which twothe 1.5 per cent grade, without the addition of artificial trolley pole collectors fed polyphase locomotives. The ventilation, would be impossible except by the use of contact system had 6,600 volts between phases and con-electric motive power. The electrification of such a tunnel sisted of two direct suspended trolley wires and the rail. 331 332 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING December, 1V28 In 1926 the Great Northern Railway decided to extend its electrification
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