. The street railway review . ry of a Great Enterpriseprepared liy Mr. George B. Gow. of Glens Falls; to a paper read byMr. Charles E. Parsons, cliief engineer, before the February, 1903,meeting of the .Xmerican Institute of Mining Engineers, and to anaccount of the Mcchanicsvillc plant prepared by Mr. B. E. Morrow,manager operating department, Hudson River Water Power Co.;from all of these authorities extracts have been freely made by kindpermission of the respective authors. The Electric Division of tlie Fonda, Johnstown & Glovers- ville Railroad. liY H. O. ROCKWELL. ASSIST.\NT SUPE
. The street railway review . ry of a Great Enterpriseprepared liy Mr. George B. Gow. of Glens Falls; to a paper read byMr. Charles E. Parsons, cliief engineer, before the February, 1903,meeting of the .Xmerican Institute of Mining Engineers, and to anaccount of the Mcchanicsvillc plant prepared by Mr. B. E. Morrow,manager operating department, Hudson River Water Power Co.;from all of these authorities extracts have been freely made by kindpermission of the respective authors. The Electric Division of tlie Fonda, Johnstown & Glovers- ville Railroad. liY H. O. ROCKWELL. ASSIST.\NT .^NI) nl;SI 1 )10NT ENGINEER. .\ description of the electric division of the Fonda, Johnstownand Gloversvillc Railroad is appropriate in this issue for severalreasons. The line gives continuous electric raihvay connection with Albany. With the long interurban lines running north from Albany, as described elsewhere in this issue, the Fonda,Johnstown and Gloversville forms a : link from this. UBNKKAI. VllvtV ij» KNOINli HOOAI, .\1 ,\ I .S IliWKK HTAT10N-K0NI).\, .H U * (!l,l IVIOIISV .!•; Ii.\ I ). Iictwccn filovcrjville, N. Y., and Scheiuclady, and in conjunctionwith the lines of the Schenectady Railway places this portion ofthe Mohawk Valley in direct communication by electric railway imporlani section nf Ilu Mohawk Valley lo the Lake (ieorgc regionon the north and lIucNon, N. V.,on Ihc .soulh. The distance isabout 50 miles fmni Cilovcrsvillc to Albany, ;nid with the 4o-milc- 486 STUliliT RAILWAY KliVIEW. [Vol. XIU. No. 8. line to Hudson aniJ ilic ^o-milc line to Lake GcorRe, these connec-tions form the longest continiioiis electric railway rutilcs in the operating the electric line between Gloversvillc and Schenec-tady a power house has been built, which, rxcludinK the traction
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