The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-14
RAILWAY AMID ETERNAL SNOW.
It Runs to the Peak of the JunGfrau ii
Switzerland.
From Engineering.

The view from the top Of the jung
frau the most famous peak of the Ber-
nese Overland almost exactly A,OO0 ieet
above sea level. is considered unique. the
ascent is no longer regarded as great
feat But it is tedious and impracticable
for non-climbers. Hence the desire TO
build a railway up the Jungfrau. which,
with it's fellows, the Monch and the Eli
ger, and its beautiful satellites, the Sill
berhorn and the Schneehorn, close to the
ridge of the Jungfrau offers a most mag
nificent. awe-inspiring spectacle.
The Scheidegg Rack railway allows us
to admire this grand panorama. The
Jungfrau railway takes us right up to the
Eiger glacier, peretrates by tunnels into
the Eiger and is to proceed round the
back of the Eiger to the Monch and the
Jungfraujoch and finally into the jung
frau The last 240 feet up to the top of
the Jungfrau are to be accomplished With
the aid of an elevator.
If the project be carried out, it cannot
be completed within the period of six
years first specified. An observatory is
to be built on the top of the Jungfrau,
on which the Jungfrau Railway company
is to eXpend a minimum of $4,000 and
the company Is further to contribute
| $1,000 annually toward the research. AL
| ready one and three-eighths of a mile
have been built to a height of $3.50 feet
above the sea level, and in laying out
| the remainder attention had to be paid
| to Eiger, to the Monch and the Jung
| fraujoch and has been met with at an in
| conveniently low level 80 that there will
| be an incline on this section. The total
| length of the line will be II miles.
Fourteen trains run at present daily on
| the part of the line already opened and
| the power station, as described in En-
| cheering. is to be further extended for
| the new length of the line up through the
| eternal SHOWS, The current comes from
| the central station at Lauterbrunncn,
which now gives 1000 horsepower The
| addition of two Escher-Wyss turbines,
now being erected, will place 1000 horse
| power at the disposal of the railway
| company. The water is that of the White
| Lutschne. The intake is close to the ra-
| nous but somewhat too misty Staubbach
| fall. Each electric generator driven by
| the water turbine yields currents of 500
| amperes and 1000 volts. The two new
| dynamos of the Oerlikon company are for
| the same speed, but of higher power, 500
against 800 horse power.
Lightning has several times visited the
| station, without even blowing any fuses
! little damage was done, however il
one case, where the lightning must have
| struck the pressure conduit somewhere
| and, passing along it, got into the tur-
| bine 1t pierced one of the Raffard rings
| and escaped through the asbestos insula-
| ton Of the generator without doing
| further harm. 1t must not be forgotten
| in reading SO much about lightning con-
| ductors in such installations, that even
! moderate-sized houses in Switzerland of.
| ten bear two or three lightning rods. The
first electric car was fitted with two mo,
| tors, each of 125 horsepower The sec.
| ond has two motors of $50 horse power
| They run at 760 revolutions. The ques
ton of brakes is naturally very import
ant Ample provision seems to have beer
| made.