| Show ELECTRIC ENGINES ARRIVING Har harlowton lowton mont oct 18 the biggest electric locomotives in the world are being delivered this week in batches to the chicago milwaukee st paul railway system they form the advance guard of fifty huge electric engines to be used by the road in operating miles of its tal line between Har harlowton lowton mont feet above sea level and avery idaho elevation 2494 feet they will climb the rocky mountain summit feet and the blet mountain summit feet when these giant machines go into operation some time in november hauling heavy freight and passenger trains through tile the precipitous cip itous ranges of montana and idaho the most ambitious electrification project ever conceived will have safely passed its most difficult stages these locomotives are designed to do the work being done at present and rather too expensively by huge mallet steam engines j two of which are used to pull heavy freight trains up the grade of the belt and bitter i root ranges they are expected to effect affelt an all enormous economy in operation |
