| Show BOBS UP AGAIN GAn I 1 of ot Story That S P 1 Will l Use C Ran Fan n Francisco Aug J The South em em Pacific Ii It I considering the use UM of ot electric power Ower to tak take the heavy heu freight and passenger trains over or the HIt I Keep grades of ot the Merra erta Nevada d mountains Electric power can I be I I easily 11 Installed according to the tire pre I reports report to do the work ork with an arm Increase over the th speed of th t the n trains of ot about aboul lOG per Ont cent The I bet bert peed ped the locomotive I Inow tow now hauling the th freight cars ass can ln at j tain tam over ever the Ib steep grades IK is eight an In hour and an sometimes sometime three have ban to 10 bo ho attached to 10 II a I train It Is understood d th iii new ee else trIo trie tr power will wIlt take taka the car can over eer the grades at minimum rate of it I 3 miles mile an all hour It II U Is proposed proposal pr po by b the Southern Pa Pt I to do away with some Mine of f the hardest grade grades hy It II the use of ot tunnels I which will wilt be bored In iii time the vicinity of Summit and ull Truckee Tr tk In nil cit s ft the Ihl solution 1011 II lion of 01 the Il will aIll 1 I 1 fo found ml In to Ina toa I a plant on en the mountains It Is III i urged el that such uch a plant can b be built unit and quipped equipped at a cost tO t using u oil all oila alln I as n a fuel and Ind can nn S u all cli the I K It U UIt If It the proposed d Improvements are a made It is III matoo that the cost rot of or hauling bulinI the trains will be cut ut in half hilt and nd the Ih freight carrying capacity of Qt the Ihl road Over ever the summit mil of ot the Sier Sierras rat ras will cill be bl almost almo t doubled Oil win Iii 11 be bt j used with the electric and IId the I oc K will be p tit I ii |
