. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ndi-tions affecting the gas-electric car. On the one hand, themechanical and electrical equipment of the car was de-veloped to a high state of excellence; while on the other,many branch railroad lines, which had previously beenprofitable, went into red because of rising costs anddwindling traffic. The railroads of this country, like every other pro-gressive American industry, are constantly analyzingevery detail of their operations and are improving theefficiency of their methods at every opp
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ndi-tions affecting the gas-electric car. On the one hand, themechanical and electrical equipment of the car was de-veloped to a high state of excellence; while on the other,many branch railroad lines, which had previously beenprofitable, went into red because of rising costs anddwindling traffic. The railroads of this country, like every other pro-gressive American industry, are constantly analyzingevery detail of their operations and are improving theefficiency of their methods at every opportunity. It isthis process which has brought the gas-electric car intoprominence during the past few years; it provides a solu-tion for the lean traffic problem in many cases. And so today thirty railroads in the United States areoperating 134 gas-electric cars equipped by Westinghouseand involving 162 units of equipment. Among these arethe Great Northerns; New York Central; Big Four;Reading; Chicago & Northwestern and Chicago, Mil-waukee, St. Paul & Pacific. The officials of all of these. One of the Twenty-five Gas-Electric Cars in Service on the Great Northern Railway adapting the most economical power to their needs. Infact, this problem is being solved by all of our industriesin one way or another, but by none more effectively thanby the steam railroads. This search for more efficient tools was responsiblesome years ago for the advent of the gas-electric rail carto solve certain traffic problems. On a branch line ofone railroad, a deficit of $36,000 was changed into aprofit of $102,000 by substituting gas-electric rail carsfor steam trains. This particular case, though a striking one, is by nomeans unique. Due to the various operating economiesmade possible by these efficient tools of transportation,many other railroads have been able to show profits in-stead of losses by using them. Records covering manysuch instances are available. The gas-electric rail car is no novelty
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