. The Street railway journal . arked that when great combi-nations fall a-fighting the public gets square for all it haslost by their previous amity, and some turn of the wheelmay bring the franchises for a great fast line into handsable and willing to utilize them. And perhaps our 100-mile-an-hour train may have to await such a fortunatechance, though the engineering part of the problem ispractically solved to-day. August 3, 1901.] is) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 137 Higfh-Speed Electric Traction Between Milan and theItalian Lakes During the past few months several articles concerningvarious elec
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. The Street railway journal . arked that when great combi-nations fall a-fighting the public gets square for all it haslost by their previous amity, and some turn of the wheelmay bring the franchises for a great fast line into handsable and willing to utilize them. And perhaps our 100-mile-an-hour train may have to await such a fortunatechance, though the engineering part of the problem ispractically solved to-day. August 3, 1901.] is) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 137 Higfh-Speed Electric Traction Between Milan and theItalian Lakes During the past few months several articles concerningvarious electric traction installations in the Kingdom ofItaly have appeared in this paper, showing that not onlyare the number of urban installations rapidly increasing, it for some future electric railway installations can beshown. From an engineering point of view this trans-formation from steam to electricity seems a wise measurewhen one considers the high cost of coal, which mustnecessarily be imported from abroad. As the cost of de-. / h A STRETCH OF TYPICAL TRACK AND LINE but also that there exists a decided tendency on the part ofthe railroad companies to transform the more important oftheir secondary lines from steam into electric traction. As far back as December, 1898, the Italian RailwayCompany (Societa Itahana per la Strada Ferrata del Medi-terraneo) opened an accumulator car serv-vice on the line between Milan andMonza, a distance of about 9 miles. Thisinstallation, however, was made more byway of experiment than anything else, inorder to ascertain the practicability ofthis method of traction on secondary linesdemanding an infrequent service. Sincethen more ambitious projects have beenstudied, with the object of introducingelectric traction on lines of considerablelength and importance, having a heavypassenger and freight traffic. Some ofthese schemes have been discarded for thepresent, as for instance, the Naples-Castellammare and the Giovi (Genoa-Turin) lines, but some othe