. The railroad and engineering journal . gned and built by me for the Cumber-land Valley Railroad, at the Chambersburg, Pa., shops,in 1883, and which has been in constant use up to accompanying illustration explains the construction. is no\v ripe for a nations thought. If Mr. Edison, too,can add to existing methods one by which low voltagemay be used, it is cause for general congratulation, eventhough to many of us lowering voltage looks like a decidedstep backward. We are all gainers by every extension ofthe field, and in the long run not a cent less will be spentin railroad investme
. The railroad and engineering journal . gned and built by me for the Cumber-land Valley Railroad, at the Chambersburg, Pa., shops,in 1883, and which has been in constant use up to accompanying illustration explains the construction. is no\v ripe for a nations thought. If Mr. Edison, too,can add to existing methods one by which low voltagemay be used, it is cause for general congratulation, eventhough to many of us lowering voltage looks like a decidedstep backward. We are all gainers by every extension ofthe field, and in the long run not a cent less will be spentin railroad investment. Moreover, there is no evidencethat e.\isting methods or apparatus will be wiped out, evenby the most revolutionary invention. Each new inventionsimply restricts other ways of reaching results to theirstrictly legitimate sphere of greatest profit and benefit ;and as far as electrical plant is concerned, the depreciationis generally so slight that, even in spite of the great ad-vances made, apparatus is still running with satisfaction. ELECTRIC LIGHT CAR FOR THE VALLEY RAILROAD. El4C.£vr^ll. T. We use this plant for lighting at wrecks, and rent it forpicnics, camp-meetings and often for public lighting. Thecapacity of the plant is forty 2,000-candle-power and two6s-candle-power incandescent series lamps. This plant consists of a fifteen 2,000-candle-power lampdynamo, built by the Thomson-Houston Electric Com-pany, 1880, purchased by our Company in 18S2 ; a twenty-live 2,000-candle-power lamp dynamo, spherical type, pur-chased in 1886, operated by a 35 vertical automaticengine and a 40 vertical submerged flue boiler, builtby the Taylor Manufacturing Company, Chambersburg,Pa. The plant has given entire satisfaction. MR. EDISONS RAILROAD INVENTIONS. (From the Electrical Engineer.) Our columns contain this week the bitter protest of acorrespondent against the various reports that have ap-peared in the newspapers with regard to some new workof Mr. Edison in
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