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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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ndianapolis, Columbus &Southern Traction Co., Columbus, Ind.; C. C. Reynolds, generalmanager of the Indiana properties of the Dolan-Morgan-McGowanSyndicate. Lafayette. Ind.; G F. Wells, manager Terre Haute Trac-tion & Light Co., Terre Haute, Ind.; H. P. Clegg, general managerDayton & Troy Electric Railway Co., Dayton, O.; C. N. Wilcoxon.general superintendent Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Co..Cleveland, O.; F. J. J. Sloat, general manager Cincinnati, Dayton& Toledo Traction Co., Hamilton, O.; and J. W. Brown, superin-tendent of transportation. West Penn Railways Co., Connells-ville. Pa. The next meeting of the Central Electric Railway Association willbe held in Indianapolis, on March 22d. Feb. 15, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW 79 An Interesting Gasoline-Electric Car. In sparsely settled districts, where the cost of operating a steamdrawn train is prohibitive and the immediate investment of capitalfor an electric service unwarranted, there has arisen a need for a
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ENGINE ROOM OF THE DELAWARE & HUDSON HASOLI XE-ELECTRIC CAR. self-contained car which shall be independent of a feeder systemand at the same time be cheaper to operate than the ordinary loco-motive and train. For this purpose, the General Electric Co., inconjunction with the American Locomotive Works, at Schenectady, While the car was not designed for high speed, the average runningtime was about 35 in. p. h., and several timi • 1 > attained a ipeed i ;n in, p. h. The smooth and rapid acceleration was favorably commented upon by the engineers present. rhe equipment consists essentially of a gasoline-driven electricgenerator furnishing current to electric motoi gearedto the driving wheels and controlled by a method similar to that employed in the ordinary electric car equip-ment. The car shown in the illustration is divided intopassenger, smoking, baggage, engine, toilet and motor-mans compartments. The car is 05 ft. long over alland equipped weighs 65 tons. A complete control

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