. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . i .1 ibis arrangement is that itremoves from the sight of the engineerrunning apparatus which might serve to Interurban Service on the Lackawanna& Wyoming Valley Railroad. A high-speed t n ii e equal to, il m ilbetter, than that given by the parallelingti mi 11 lad . is operated I tweenton and Will i Barre, Pa., by theLackawanna & Wyoming Valley Rail-road I ompan; I i impi tition withroads between the two terminals isbut becausi ol the high-class and fre-quent service furnished by the inter-i
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . i .1 ibis arrangement is that itremoves from the sight of the engineerrunning apparatus which might serve to Interurban Service on the Lackawanna& Wyoming Valley Railroad. A high-speed t n ii e equal to, il m ilbetter, than that given by the parallelingti mi 11 lad . is operated I tweenton and Will i Barre, Pa., by theLackawanna & Wyoming Valley Rail-road I ompan; I i impi tition withroads between the two terminals isbut becausi ol the high-class and fre-quent service furnished by the inter-in ban line, its traffic is verj hea Local and limited trains are trams on a twenty minute head Battery-Charging Motor-Generator Setsfor Railway No. 4085, just issued by thenj dibriefly that motor-generatingfoi railwaj signaling. The bulletinhould 1 ■ railway men. Large Electric Turbo-Generators. Electric power is 1>. in1904, that the \\ • unpany. ELEVATION VIEW OF THE POWERFUL NEW ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE FUR THE NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. distract his attention from the actualwork of handling the locomotive andwhich can be inspected and attended toby his assistant. This general type ofconstruction leaves a fairly long platformon either end of the locomotive. Accessto the cab is obtained through doorsopening onto the platform. The motor is practically enclosed, andthe field coils are waterproofed andarmored. End shields are provided foreach motor, which render it dust-tightand practically water-tight. The loco-motive with all eight motors working hasa capacity of 13,500 lbs. tractive effort at54 miles per hour for one hour, and 10,000lbs. tractive effort at 60 miles per hourcontinuously. The motors are elec-trically connected in pairs, each pairhandled as a four motor equipment in thethree combinations, namely, series, seriesparallel and parallel. Current is collected by eight under-running third rail shoes, or by two over-head tro
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