. Electric railway journal . ith respect to time and place. It will befound, we think, that in not a few cases the simplest solutionof the peak difficulty is the installation of one or more steam-driven auxiliary stations able at once to supply peak powerand to deliver it conveniently at points well suited to meetthe wandering load. Difficulties due to this wandering and toexaggerated peaks are most severely felt in single stationswhich supply power over a somewhat too wide area of dis-tribution. 4o8 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXVII. No. 10. THE GALVESTON-HOUSTON INTERURBAN RAILWAY One o
. Electric railway journal . ith respect to time and place. It will befound, we think, that in not a few cases the simplest solutionof the peak difficulty is the installation of one or more steam-driven auxiliary stations able at once to supply peak powerand to deliver it conveniently at points well suited to meetthe wandering load. Difficulties due to this wandering and toexaggerated peaks are most severely felt in single stationswhich supply power over a somewhat too wide area of dis-tribution. 4o8 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXVII. No. 10. THE GALVESTON-HOUSTON INTERURBAN RAILWAY One of the latest additions to the transportation facilities ofSouthern Texas is the Galveston & Houston Interurban Rail-way, which is rapidly approaching completion under the design-er and builder, the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation,of Boston, Mass. Galveston has a population of about 40,000,and is the principal port on the Gulf of Mexico, being secondonly to New York in the value of its yearly exports. Included. EUctric By. Journal Galveston-Houston Railway—Route of Electric Lines andSteam Railroads Centering at Houston among its shipping facilities are 220 miles of steam railroadterminal trackage, 5 miles of docks and 95 acres of Galveston three steamship lines are in service to Liver-pool, three to New York and one each to Bremen, Cuba, VeraCruz and Tampico. Houston, 45 miles northwest, has a popula-tion of about 90,000. It is the greatest cotton market in theworld, the center of the oil and lumber regions of the State,and is served by 18 railroad connections. GENERAL FEATURES The new line is to be of single-track construction, with aright-of-way permitting a second track eventually. Its total
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