. Electric railway gazette . nt is definitely and satisfactorilydetermined. Railway companies will not discard thelocomotives, which represent an investment of millions ofdollars—the locomotive equipment of the New York Cen-tral alone is quoted at six millions and a half—so long asthere is the least uncertainty as to the superiority of elec-tricity to steam. We believe, however, that this will, atno distant day, be clearly established, and that with thisdemonstration will come changes in the methods and facili- Conduit Electric Railway. We illustrate herewith a conduit electric railway sys-tem
. Electric railway gazette . nt is definitely and satisfactorilydetermined. Railway companies will not discard thelocomotives, which represent an investment of millions ofdollars—the locomotive equipment of the New York Cen-tral alone is quoted at six millions and a half—so long asthere is the least uncertainty as to the superiority of elec-tricity to steam. We believe, however, that this will, atno distant day, be clearly established, and that with thisdemonstration will come changes in the methods and facili- Conduit Electric Railway. We illustrate herewith a conduit electric railway sys-tem, for which a patent has recently been granted toMr. Daniel OFlaherty, a well-known civil engineer ofKansas City, Mo. The object of the system is to providesuch a construction as will obviate the leakage of cur-rent, to which end a contact with the cable is made suc-cessively by connections interposed between the cableand a contact shoe depending from the car, the inter-posed mechanism being moved out of contact with the. CROSS-SLCTION THROlGH ROADB1 D. cable, when the pressure of the shoe is removed. Inaddition, the design includes provision for thorough in-sulation of all the working parts. Referring to the accompanying illustration, it will beseen that a shoe depending from the car strikes a con-tact roller, the shoe being of a length sufficient to bealways in contact with two of these rollers, and at timeswith a third one. When the shoe strikes the roller, thespring-actuating rod carrying it is repressed, and theouter end of the rod forced into contact with the exposed
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