Identifier: electricrailway421913newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ars of earlier times. But it is also truethat there has been a parallel advance in the technic ofthe locomotive and of the electric railway which receivespower direct from a central station. The attempt toconduct cross-country transportation on a large scale bythe self-propelled car was abandoned in the forties whenit was shown that trackless steamers were far costlierthan trains on rails, and in a similar way the heavyservice of city transportation was surrendered by the stor- of each type for particular classes of service. As thefollowing account tends to show, both the gasoline andthe gas-electric type are readily capable of running 150miles a day and more, whereas the limitations of batteryweight, facilities for charging and limitations of schedulesconfine the accumulator car to city and short-line opera-tion. In presenting this list of installations and tables ofoperating statistics it has been thought well to refer onlyto the representative builders of self-propelled cars rather
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Gas-Electric Passenger and Baggage Car, 70 ft. Long, with Rear Platform Entrance age battery to the trolley car about half a century later.Yet, if these fields of greater traffic were lost, manyopportunities for usefulness remained and still others werecreated as the benefits of the various modes of transitbecame better known. It is this condition which hasjustified the continued development and successful ex-ploitation of gasoline, gas-electric and storage battery cars. than to include descriptions of more or less experimentaldesigns. GASOLINE CARSThe McKeen steel motor car was developed aboutten years ago for service on the less important branchesof the Union Pacific Railroad. Its conspicuous successhas led to its adoption for similar service on other rail- I October 4, 1913.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 623 1 roads, so that to-day some 1 39 cars, comprising all thathave been built by the McKeen Motor Car Company,are in use on fifty systems. Among the American usersare the Erie Railroa

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