The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-10-14
MILWAUKEE
RAPID PROGRESS MADE
MOTOR ON WAY TO RUTTE-GI.
eANTIc ENTERPRIsE-MAY
MAKE TRIAL THIS YEAR.

lWho has personal charge or the cleo.
ltrifcation of the Milwaukee road In
Montana, 1t was stated yesterday that
work on the line is progressing salts
Ifactorily. There has been talk thai
the first electric trains will be tried
out between Three Forks and Deer
Lodge some time during the present
year, but this is not definite, says the
Butte Miner.
That the vastness of the task I'M
dertaken by the st. Paul system in
the identification of four engine divi-
sions extending from Harlowton
Mont, to Avery, Idaho, total main
distance of approximately 44O miles
with approximately $50 miles of track
including yards and sidings, may be
better appreciated. 1t is stated by an
official connected with the construc-
ton department that an expenditure
of $13,000,000 will be necessary to
complete the work.
1t is estimated that 14,00O,000 pounds
of copper will be required for the
overhead wire work and the bonding
of the rails. This estimate does moi
take into consideration the amount Of
wire required in the construction OF
feed lines from the power plants run
ming across the country many hun
dreds Of miles to the st. Paul lines
nor does 1t include the copper en-
braced in the construction of electric
locomotives.
struction is practically completed from
Eustis, Mont. to Janney, Mont. to-
tai of more than 20 miles of overhead
work. The balance of the overhead
work from Janney west Is more thar
50 per cent completed
| Three track bonding crews are at
work connecting the ends of the rails
with copper wires, and such work has
been completed from Cayon, Mont, tc
Deer Lodge A stretch of track about
7 miles near Summit, Mont, remains
to be bonded and when that part o.
the line has been bonded the stretch
! of track is ready for the current.
The transmission line which follows
the track feeding the trolley has beer
completed from Maudlow, Mont, tc
Motel, Mont, II miles east of Deer
Lodge. This line ties all IA substa-
tions along the line together and car
rles 100000 volts alternating current
for train operation.
! The freight locomotive is designed
to haul load of $500 tons on all gra
dents up to 1 per cent at speed of
approximately 16 miles per hour, as
compared with the big Mallet (steam
locomotives of the largest type) OF
about 1912 miles per hour.
Engine on Way Here
! The first of these electric locomo-
tives has left the General Electric fac
tory at Schenectady N. Y, and is or
its way to Montana. 1t will be towed
to Three Forks and probably to Butte
1t is being exhibited in several of the
larger eastern and middle western cit
les while en- route.
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul ir
its electrical locomotives will have thu
largest and most powerful engines in
H.
from 100000 to 100000. The passen-
ger and freight locomotives are all
the same size, each weighing 260 tons
the passenger differing from the
freight only in being geared higher
for speed. The passenger locomotives
are designed to haul an S00-ton pas
senger train at a rate of go miles ar
hour on level track.
The work of electrifying the entire
inc of the ST. Paul from Avery to the
Pacific coast will be undertaken az
soon as the four engine divisions ex-
tending from Harlowton to Avery
have been completed. which compile
ton is scheduled for approximately
three years hence.
In fact, IL is stated by officials of
the st. Paul road that It is expected
to electrify such portions of the road
west Of Avery where electrical power
is available as soon as possible with
out waiting for the completion of the
work now under way
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
railway from Harlowton to the coast
crosses four mountain ranges. the Belt
at an elevation Of 576S
feet; the Rocky mountains at an ele- |
vation of $3.50 feet; the Bitter Root |
mountains at an elevation OF 1900 feet |
mo the Cascade mountains at an ele- |
'ation Of 1910 feet; and across three
II the ranges present electr,hcatiar
,lons Of the company extend.
The electrifcation is under the d.
'ectlon of c. A. Goodnow, assistant tn
President T.. A. Earring of the sys-
EN-, with the immediate charge of tho
york under r. Beeuwkes, electrical
ngineer of the railway Associated
With Mr. Beeuwkes are r. e. Vale
nd f. B. Walker, both assistant en-
ineers. the former being in charge of
he overhead wire work and the latter
he substation construction.