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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Direct-Driven Gasoline Motor Car of All-Steel Construction air and ammonia cars 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 we

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