. Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date . comotiveand its train of now quaint and curious cars (often paintedand engraved) carried passengers over the first passengerrailroad in the Northern States. Reference is had to thesuccessful trial of a powerful electric locomotive and itstrain of eight ears, during which it happened to be broughtinto visible competition with the regular fast mail drawn bya steam locomotive over a parallel track. And lo and behold!the quiet, smokeless, smooth-running, light
. Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date . comotiveand its train of now quaint and curious cars (often paintedand engraved) carried passengers over the first passengerrailroad in the Northern States. Reference is had to thesuccessful trial of a powerful electric locomotive and itstrain of eight ears, during which it happened to be broughtinto visible competition with the regular fast mail drawn bya steam locomotive over a parallel track. And lo and behold!the quiet, smokeless, smooth-running, lightning-fed train drew PREEACE TO TENTH EDITION. XXIU slowly away from ils rival, both f? in tlie same directionat the top of their speed. The incident seemed to mark thedeath-knell of steam, as it, in turn, out-ran and signed thedeath-warrant of the old stage coach three-quarters of acentniy before. The result of this, and further practical tests, was thatthe New York Central road ordered thirty electric locomo-tives of the same kind and size, with a promise of order fortwenty more. These engines weigh eighty-five tons each,—not. Electric Locomotive and Train.—New York Central System. Courtesy of the Scientific American. much more than half that of a modem steam task will be to take in tow all trains when they ap-proach to within thirty-five miles of New York city, and drawthem swiftly in through tunnels whose smoke and gas nowhalf strangle the unhappy of the coke and coal-burn-ing locomotive. These new motors and their cars, withhundreds of other suburban electric trains of the same roadand the New York, New Haven and Hartford road, are toarrive at and depart from a new underground station in the XXIV PEEFACE TO TENTH EDITION. rear of the Grand Central terminal, to make room for whichnineteen blocks of buildings have been torn down. Further-more, all the other main lines of railroads entering NewYork, have decided to use electric power for draw
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