Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1916 — France Improving Railroads. [ARTICLE]

France Improving Railroads.

The Midi railroad, which operates in southern France and to the frontier of Spain, is having built at the present time eight electric locomotives deigned for both freight and passenger services on its electrified lines, this extension of the electrical equipment on a governmental railway system being obviously in preparation for the reconstructive period which must come after peace has been declared in Europe. The new locomotives, states the Electric Railway Journal, are intended for the system’s western group of electrified lines and they will ultimately be placed in service on the main line from Toulouse to Bayonne on the Atlantic coast.: —Collier’s Weekly.