Show winter automobile ferry for ice locked continental divide ae P e W prisa wa a ra te e giant electric loco r n As motorist ally to co cor quer cluer cascades earner barrier shuttle terry ferry which A uld lift automobiles and their heretofore helpless i i the he winter choked passes in the of nf the cascade mountains I 1 L topographical backbone oi of i nent is the 1 proposal sponsored th tin kuto automobile uto mobile crib ib of washing 1 rl I motorists generally it in the 11 pacific states i re is a very considerable volume I 1 mobile traffic between the in if 1 antry east of the cascades 0 i ti i cities of the slope facing the c iring the greater part of the hi b this movement igo is completely i for several months each it t this time the only gate ill ilir ugh these mountains are i t afie great transcontinental 1 even ren the powerful steam 11 ts is encounter serious delays i i tile lie heavy snows and tem xluch aluch RO go as low as forty I 1 eng eri nt ni failures and anabil i ke ste im are frequent pr bt bi r v ji ai ing train movements dah plan approved 1 p n advocated by the lie club of washington has d by the washington i v committee it colls ci c i i of one or two traina Z dpn r 1 1 1 L sl s of tiie the cascades tp the flat cars the journey over or the mountains I 1 ains would require only a few hours during average winters the motorists would either remain seated in their machines or ride in a passenger coach attached atta clied to the feiry according to the plan the chicago milwaukee and st paul railway because it is electrified would doubtless be the best fitted to inaugurate such a service said II if A chadwich a member of the board of directors of the washington auto club the trip between ter terminal should not be of more than two h hours za duration and I 1 am sure that a trial tria of the plan for a few weeks this fall would show it to be not oil only ay a great benefit to motorists on both sides of the range but would prove profitable for the railroad and it would be ae the next thing to keeping a highway open across the mountains all winter electric moil efficient I 1 the electric locomotives of the chicago ce and st paul it was pointed out being far more po powerful er than the stearn steam locomotive and acm licens immune to the effects of the temperatures maintain the highest standards of regular train service over the cascades bitter root and rocky mountains while the volume of traffic likel likely v to be handled is very verv uncertain ow is to tn the fact that nothing of the sort sori fis ever been attempted before be f ere eglas shelor branager ira tra nager of the auto A ito cu vi n 1 p ti 1 I hat the ill le profitable 1 fl atif i 1 1 z a 1 tc 11 I 1 n V alisi VV V linnia lin nii 1 I 1 ia Co couil luit I 1 T 1 i I i i 1 ti I n |