. Electric railway journal . WAR-TIME TRANSPORT IN VIENNA—PULLING COAL WAGONS ON A CURVE cheap and skilful transportation of freight throughoutthe city. We are therefore adapting our electric rail-ways for that purpose so far as possible. The same con-dition holds true also throughout Austria-Hungary. A most important new field for the electric railwayis the hauling of coal and coke from the steam railroadwarehouses and gas plants to large city depots and re-tail dealers. In Vienna the direct use of the electricrailway for this purpose is often impracticable becausethe coal is delivered to sev
. Electric railway journal . WAR-TIME TRANSPORT IN VIENNA—PULLING COAL WAGONS ON A CURVE cheap and skilful transportation of freight throughoutthe city. We are therefore adapting our electric rail-ways for that purpose so far as possible. The same con-dition holds true also throughout Austria-Hungary. A most important new field for the electric railwayis the hauling of coal and coke from the steam railroadwarehouses and gas plants to large city depots and re-tail dealers. In Vienna the direct use of the electricrailway for this purpose is often impracticable becausethe coal is delivered to several widely-scattered termi-nals and the coke also must be taken from two different. WAR-TIME TRANSPORT IN VIENNA—ATTACHING AN EMPTYCOAL WAGON gas plants. Most of these sources of fuel supply arenot accessible directly to the electric railway tracks. Tobuild sidings and special fuel cars, including weighingfacilities, would have called for a prohibitive expense,aside from which the retail fuel supplies in Viennawould have been exhausted long before new equipmentcould be furnished and installed. To meet the emergency created by the war the writersuggested that the coal and coke be carried in the samewagons as before, but that motor-car haulage be sub-stituted for horses on reaching the car tracks. Thegreat reduction in horse mileage thus obtained wouldmake it possible, of course, to get along with very fewanimals. Following the writers suggestion, the wagons areloaded and weighed at the supply points, whereuponthey are drawn by horses to the nearest street the horses are unhitched and reharnessed to takeback the empties. In the meantime the motor cars d
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