Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — May Settle Vexed Question. [ARTICLE]

May Settle Vexed Question.

In the course of a few weeks it !• expected the electric locomotive in Chicago’s Northwest Side freight yard will be drawing 100 heavily loaded freight cars a day over a mile of track, shunting them onto the correct switch, and sending an equal number of emptied cars back to the main line, with almost no disturbance to the residence neighborhood in which ~ the which the work is done. While the use of electricity is common in passenger traffic, this is the first, time the current has been used to any large extent in switching freight cars. Doubt as to the practicability of using electrlcUocomatlves in Chicago freight yards is considered the greatest obstacle to electrification, and records made by the new line are expected to help in settling the question.