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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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ive. The official exhibition ami trial of the high speed electric locomo-tive designed and built for the New York Central & Hudson RiverR. R. bv the General Electric Co. and .American Locomotive Workstook place at Schenectady, Nov. 12th, for the electric traction com-mission of the railroad company and its guests. .\ large party of railroad men and newspaper representatives were may therefore be easily adapted to weight of train with no complica-tion in operation and with uniform make-up of tram crew. .\single electric locomotive will be able to maintain the schedule witha 450 ton train, two locomotives being coupled together for heaviertrains. The locomotive developed remarkably easy riding qualitiesat high speeds and during acceleration, responding with ease to thewill of the operator. The locomotive consists of four driving axles on each of wluch ismounted without intermediate gearing, the armature of an electricmotor having a normal rating of 550 h. p. The total rated capacity
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taken from New York City to Schenectady on a special train com-posed of nine Pullman cars. Among those in attendance wereWilliam J. Wilgus, fifth vice-president, New York Central & HudsonRiver R. R.; John F. Deems, general superintendent of motivepower. New York Central & Hudson River R. R.; Bion J. Arnold,Frank J. Sprague, George Gibbs, Edwin B. Katte, Samuel Rea,fourth vice-president. Pennsylvania R. R.; T. Voorhces, first vice-president Philadelphia & Reading R. R.; W. H. Marshall, generalmanager. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R.; H. H. Vreeland,president. New York City Railway Co.; W. G. Besler, general man-ager. Central R. R. of New Jersey; J. M. Graham, fourth vice-presi-dent, Erie R. R.; M B. Cutter, general superintendent. Lehigh Val-ley R. R.; E. G. Connettc, general manager, Syracuse Rapid TransitCo.; A. G. Yates, president, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg R. R.; A. I. Culver, second

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