Address by J.E. Crawford

I can tell you in words of one syllable our experience on the Norfolk and Western. Our electrification problem is rather different from the problem of most of the other lines. When we first undertook electrification we were faced with the problem of handling about nine hundred cars in each direction over very heavy grades, and in very heavy tonnage, and our first thought was to investigate electrification merely from a pusher standpoint; that is, we would bring the tonnage trains up and use an electric pusher over the grade.