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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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The electrical operation of railroads of all kinds is a problem ofthe day which is occupying the attention of all countries. A num-ber of attempts in this direction have been made in various places,
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some of which have already met with success. .Xmong the latershould be mentioned the electric railway of La Mure for which tlicElectrical & Mechanical Industrial Co., of Geneva, recently con-structed a somewhat remarkable electric locomotive. This locomo-tive is used principally for expediting the operation of the anthra-cite coal mines in the basin of La Mure. The machine is one of thefirst, if not the fir.st, which has been put into use for drawing heavytrains at very slow speeds. This railway from St. Georges de Commiers to I-a Mure has aHngth of 31 km. over which the new locomotive operates, and itwas previously operated by steam locomotives, but on account ofthe numerous and unusually steep grades which arc found alongthe line, as well as curves having a radius of sometimes less than100 m., it was decided to adopt electric tr,nction on the more im-portant part of the line from La Motte les Bains to La MoitcdAveillans. The new locomot

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