Identifier: streetrailwayrev01amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ingenuity in mountain climbing. Whenelectrically guided, we shoot over the Rockies and the switch-back, in the path of the electric motor, follows agrade running from 3.4 to 6.4 per cent. After reaching thetop the road winds its serpentine course down on theother side to Klapperthall Park, passing on its way num-berless other pleasure resorts and picnic grounds, throughthe beautiful scenery effected by the valley and the lovelySchuylkill river. The road began traffic during the summer of 90; itsequipment consisting of cars run by Edison No. 6, doublereduction 15-horse-power street car motors. Since then,in view of the fact that the empty cars weigh 13 tonsand often carry 100 passengers, all the new cars havetwo of the new 25-horse-power single reduction motors,which are giving excellent results. The Edison people are to be congratulated on the suc-cess attained. Now there are in operation six 38 footcars, each weighing about 13 tons. The cars used areof the Brill double truck pattern.
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AT THE SUMMIT—NEVERSINK MOUNTAIN LI kL I Kit Alps, electrical engineers must seek yet harder diversion.Among the feats of engineering lately accomplished, noneought to arouse greater admiration than electric con-struction and operation on grades, and electric roads willsoon present to the poorer traveling public, sights andscenes reserved now to the rich and leisure-blessedmortals we read about. Among the finest scenery so farrendered accessible, is that disclosed by the route of theNeversink Mountain Electric Railway, running out ofReading, Pennsylvania. The phj-sical conditions of the route proposed anddemanded by travelers was enough to balk any one buta twentieth century engineer. The line under discussionstarting from the heart of the great manufacturing centerof Reading to the very pinnacle of Neversink. For12 miles the railway, by a series of curves and only one Through the excellence of the motors and constructionand the special oil boxes there is almost no noise. The power

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