. The Street railway journal . FIG. 8.—SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS OPERATING RAILWAY GENERATORS-PONEMAH MILLS. go far headed by Messrs. Tucker, Anthony & Company, boughtboth the Norwich and New London systems entire, withthe exception of the interests retained by Messrs. Shawand Cogswell. The electric equipment has been rapidlyextended during the past year, and the road is now excel-lently equipped and operated under the efficient man-agement of E. , FIG. 9.—SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR AND SWITCHBOARD—PONEMAH MILLS. Railway Company, which was sold under property of the company was oper
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 8.—SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS OPERATING RAILWAY GENERATORS-PONEMAH MILLS. go far headed by Messrs. Tucker, Anthony & Company, boughtboth the Norwich and New London systems entire, withthe exception of the interests retained by Messrs. Shawand Cogswell. The electric equipment has been rapidlyextended during the past year, and the road is now excel-lently equipped and operated under the efficient man-agement of E. , FIG. 9.—SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR AND SWITCHBOARD—PONEMAH MILLS. Railway Company, which was sold under property of the company was operated by horsepower until the spring of 1892, when the road, havingbeen sold to Messrs. Shaw, Pond and Mason, of Boston,and Charles P. Cogswell, of Norwich, equipment withelectric motors was commenced. The tracks were relaid Some interest-ing figures in re-gard to the com-parative cost ofmaintaining ma-cadamized roadswith and withoutcar tracks in themiddle were re-cently presentedby W. L. Dicken-son in an addressbefore the Massa-chusettsHighwayAssociation. found,as a result of along series of ob-servations atSpringfield, on residen-tial streets havinga moderate trafficand a drivewayof thirty feet be-tween curbs.^un-encumbered withstreet car tracks,so that the traf-fic is distributedover the entire surface, it is possible to furnish a good surface of macad-amized pavement at an average annual cost of cts. asq. yd. f
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