. The street railway review . by 20 cars, of which 14 arealways in motion, giving a headway of 2 minutes. Trainsrun regularly from 6 a. m. to 11 p. m. at intervals of 3 min-utes. From November i, 1896, to January 15, 1897, 572,-000 passengers were carried and 106,764 car-miles run. EXPERIMENTAL TRACK OF THE GEN-ERAL ELECTRIC. The encroachment of electric traction upon the field here-tofore exclusively occupied by the steam locomotive hascaused the General Electric Company to provide a specialtrack to facilitate electric traction experiments. The trackis laid along the Erie canal at Schenectady
. The street railway review . by 20 cars, of which 14 arealways in motion, giving a headway of 2 minutes. Trainsrun regularly from 6 a. m. to 11 p. m. at intervals of 3 min-utes. From November i, 1896, to January 15, 1897, 572,-000 passengers were carried and 106,764 car-miles run. EXPERIMENTAL TRACK OF THE GEN-ERAL ELECTRIC. The encroachment of electric traction upon the field here-tofore exclusively occupied by the steam locomotive hascaused the General Electric Company to provide a specialtrack to facilitate electric traction experiments. The trackis laid along the Erie canal at Schenectady and comprises6,700 ft. of the standard New York Central constructionwith 85-lb. T-rails. The first section of the line is a tangentof 2,415 ft., the second a series of short tangents and curves,and the third a tangent 2,730 ft. There are two 30-lb. con-ductor rails set on 8-in. treated ash blocks, running besidethe track on the far side from the canal. The two conduc-tor rails were installed for the purpose of experimenting. EXPERIMENTAL TRACK AT SCHENECTADY. with alternating multiphase currents; for direct currentexperiments the two rails are connected in multiple. Bothtrack and conductor rails are bonded with No. 0000 copperbonds. The feeder is a 500,000 c. m. insulated cable runningalong the track for 5,300 ft. The line is divided into threeworking sections, each controlled by its own switch andsemaphore. When this switch is closed its section of con-ductor is made alive, and the movement of the switch han-dle sets the semaphore. The experiments made so far have been carried on for thepurpose of developing motors and systems of operation forelevated and surface steam roads. For the locomotive a special S-wheclcd car is used which weighs 30 tons resembles a regular passenger coach and is so con-structed as to give an unobstructed access to the twomotor trucks. It is divided into three sections, a drivingand testing compartment in front, a passenger division inthe ce
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