Modern motive power for the sorocabana railway

THE Sorocabana Railway in inaugurating electric traction on its extensive meter-gauge system has selected the 87-mile-long double-track section between São Paulo and Santo Antonio in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, for the initial electrification. Twenty locomotives are being furnished to handle passenger, freight, and mixed trains with scheduled speeds of 35 miles per hour for passenger, and 30 miles per hour for freight and mixed trains over a mountainous terrain involving maximum grades of two per cent, and prevailing minimum radius curves of approximately 800 feet.