. The Street railway journal . OURNAL. [Vol. XXVII. No. 6. are provided to prevent the motor connections from beingchanged from series to parallel until the resistance is put inthe field circuit of the generator. Further operating details comprise a General Electric com-bination straight and automatic air-brake equipment and aspecial lighting equipment. The headlights are supplied withioo-cp incandescent lamps of the stereoptican type, one foreach end of the car. The trial trip of this car demonstrated the practicability ofthis equipment, and was entirely satisfactory to the engineersand offic
. The Street railway journal . OURNAL. [Vol. XXVII. No. 6. are provided to prevent the motor connections from beingchanged from series to parallel until the resistance is put inthe field circuit of the generator. Further operating details comprise a General Electric com-bination straight and automatic air-brake equipment and aspecial lighting equipment. The headlights are supplied withioo-cp incandescent lamps of the stereoptican type, one foreach end of the car. The trial trip of this car demonstrated the practicability ofthis equipment, and was entirely satisfactory to the engineersand officials present so far as the tests indicated. Theopinion was expressed that this was merely a step toward thefinal electrification of all service. A gasoline car would beuseful in establishing a passenger traffic, but eventually themotive power for operation would be electricity. The photograph of the car on page 247 was taken after the MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN STREET AND INTERURBAN RAIL-WAY ASSOCIATION. VIEW OF THE GASOLINE-ELECTRIC APPARATUS ON DELAWARE & HUDSON CAR arrival in Saratoga. Among the officials present from the Del-aware & Hudson Company were Axel Ekstrom, consulting elec-trical engineer; J. H. Manning, superintendent of motivepower; J. W. Burdick, passenger traffic manager; James Mc-Martin, chief engineer; J. B. Dixey, assistant to second vice-president; W. J. Mullin, assistant to second vice-president; D. F. Wait, superintendent of the Susquehanna division, and E. F. Peck, manager of the Schenectady Railway Company;and from the General Electric Company E. W. Rice, Jr., tech-nical director; W. B. Potter, chief engineer; J. R. Lovejoy,general manager of the railway department; J. G. Barry, assist-ant manager of the railway department; W. J. Clark, managerof transportation department; E. D. Priest, A. F. Bachelderand H. G. Chataine, of the railway engineering department,and F. H. Gale, of the advertising department. It is expected that the c
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