. Electric railway gazette . iencompany began the construction of thirty (30)cars at the works of the John Stephenson com-pany, based on the experience gained by carNo. 7 ; the first of these cars —No. 8—wasplaced on the road June 22, and on Wednesday,August 8, car No. T7—the last of the first groupof ten—was placed in service, and have sincethen run continuously in regular passenger and are very severely worn from the heavytrucking of a large city. The cars are runfrom the car stables, and owing to a lack ofroom many of the accessories of an electricsystem are lacking. The actual operation of
. Electric railway gazette . iencompany began the construction of thirty (30)cars at the works of the John Stephenson com-pany, based on the experience gained by carNo. 7 ; the first of these cars —No. 8—wasplaced on the road June 22, and on Wednesday,August 8, car No. T7—the last of the first groupof ten—was placed in service, and have sincethen run continuously in regular passenger and are very severely worn from the heavytrucking of a large city. The cars are runfrom the car stables, and owing to a lack ofroom many of the accessories of an electricsystem are lacking. The actual operation ofthese ten cars marks a new era in street cartraction, as they solve the problem of storage bat-tery traction, and it is certainly to be hoped that ata not very great distant period, this means oflocomotion will be very thoroughly adopted inthe streets of New York and elsewhere. Itsadvantages are too well known to dilate upon;it is simply a question of proving their practi-cability and economy. Their ireliability is I.
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