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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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ith the value of suchmeetings from the human standpoint, which in itselfwould justify the time and expense involved in gettingtogether. For the benefit of the technical development of electricrailway work it is necessary that the responsible engi-neers be furnished ample opportunity to meet at thesecommittee sessions and at the conventions of the En-gineering Association, otherwise they are apt to be pro-vincial and academic. The large attendance at commit-tee meetings shows that this truism is appreciated. The helpful personal relationswhich are established thusare maintained betweenthem by correspondence,chance or planned visits,the reading of personalitems in the electric rail-way press, etc. Therehas thus been built upin the electric railway in-dustry a national, althoughinformal, engineering fra-ternity, membership inwhich should be highlyprized. Every such oppor-tunity should be embracedto foster the spirit ofbrotherhood that the elec-tric railway engineer isprivileged to enjoy.
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High-speed train of Indianapolis-Louisville intei urban line. Notethe novel boll on front of motorcar used in addition to whistle. Developing an Electric Railroad Indianapolis-Louisville Interurban Is Undergoing Extensive Rehabilitationand Improvement—Features of New Steel Motor Cars and RebuiltTrailers for Use in High-Speed Limited Service Are De-scribed—Other Improvements to Be Related inArticles to Follow NOTWITHSTANDING high prices and other ad-verse economic conditions, the Interstate PublicService Company, Indianapolis, Ind., under thedirection of Harry Reid, president, has been extensivelyimproving its 117-mile Indianapolis-Louisville inter-■urban property and service during the past two years.The betterment work has followed along a plan de-signed to develop a railroad capable of rendering ahigh character of passenger and freight service betweenthese two important terminal cities. While all detailsof the plan have not yet been fully realized, the physicalimprovements alr

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