Identifier: popularelectric619131chic (find matches)
Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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country of theAtlantic seaboard. It ispushing into the moun-tains, the open spaces,the zones where collec-tions of houses are fewand far between. From a transportationstandpoint this is oftremendous importance.On the flat, densely popu-lated, Atlantic Coastcountry, electrificationwas a natural evolution.It lengthened the com-muting areas of important cities andso increased the traffic. In other words,when the suburban service used to becomposed of slow steam cars few per-sons cared to make a daily trip to busi-ness of more than 30 miles. Now withswift, clean electric trains the zone hasbeen lengthened to 40 and in some caseseven 50 miles. It has developed newsuburbs, provided new passengers andpoured more money into the treasuriesof the railroads. This has all come about in the lasteight years. To the Long Island Rail-road goes the credit for the first venture.Before 1900 electric locomotives had beenused in the tunnels of the B. & O., but itremained for the Long Island in 1905 to
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Electric Locomotive of the St. Clair Tunnel at Port Huron, Mich. It is capableof Hauling the Heaviest Freight and Passenger Trains through the Great Bore electrify the first suburban lines. Sosatisfactory were the results that thePennsylvania and the New York, NewHaven and Hartford fell quicldy intoline. The Long Island found that al-though the bills for electrification werebig they were more than balanced by in-creased returns, coming from new subur-ban developments. So satisfied was thePennsylvania system with the experimentthat they are now constructing a similarelectric service around Philadelphiassuburban district. Their line betweenPhiladelphia and New York will also beelectrified. Such long line projects as thisare expected to produce a loss. That is,a loss for the first few years. Railroadengineering experts believe, however,that this will bemore than bal-anced by in-creased effi-ciency. George Gibbs,electrical engi-neer of t h ePennsylvaniaRailroad and an First Electric Motor

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