. The Street railway journal . ompanies of this country in the matter of im-provement of its rolling stock equipment and mechanical fa-cilities. COMPARATIVE SPEED TESTS OF STEAM AND ELECTRICLOCOMOTIVES Under the auspices of the New York Central & HudsonRiver Railroad and the General Electric Company, a series oftests were made on April 29 last over the experimental trackat Schenectady, N. Y., in order to secure data on the relativeacceleration and speed characteristics of electric and steamlocomotion. The tests were made with New York Centraltype electric locomotive 6000 (described in the Stre
. The Street railway journal . ompanies of this country in the matter of im-provement of its rolling stock equipment and mechanical fa-cilities. COMPARATIVE SPEED TESTS OF STEAM AND ELECTRICLOCOMOTIVES Under the auspices of the New York Central & HudsonRiver Railroad and the General Electric Company, a series oftests were made on April 29 last over the experimental trackat Schenectady, N. Y., in order to secure data on the relativeacceleration and speed characteristics of electric and steamlocomotion. The tests were made with New York Centraltype electric locomotive 6000 (described in the Street Rail-way Journal for Nov. 19, 1904), and Pacific type passengersteam locomotive 2797, and were carried out in the presenceof W. J. Wilgus, vice-president, and E. B. Katte, electricalengineer, for the New York Central, and E. W. Rice, Jr., thirdvice-president; W. B. Potter, engineer railway department, andA. F. Batchelder, engineering department, for the GeneralElectric Company. The data secured were intended for private. PROFILE OF ROAD ON WHICH THE TESTS WERE MADE information, but the results achieved were considered so re-markable that it was decided to make public the followingresurtie of the runs: TIME OF TEST AND WEATHER CONDITIONS The test started about 8 a. m. and continued until about ip. m. of April 29, 1905; temperature averaging about 50 ; weather, cloudy. During the time of the test no rain fell,so that the rails were perfectly dry. DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIMENTAL TRACK The experimental track, 6 miles in length, is the portion ofold track No. 4 of the New York Central main line, formerlyused for eastbound freight movements between mile-posts 162and 168, west of Schenectady. The track materials are 8o-lb. standard N. Y. C. section steelrail, with 6-bolt 36-in. splices, sixteen yellow pine ties to the30-ft. rad, gravel ballast, well surfaced, curves elevated for aspeed of about 70 The working conductor consists of top-contact 70-Ih. steelrail reinforced w
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