. The Street railway journal . hite, president J. G. White& Company, New York, chairman; Yreeland, president New York City Railway Company, New York; George F. McCulloch, presi-dent Indiana Union Traction Company, Anderson, Ind.; JamesH. McGraw, president McGraw Publishing Company, NewYork, and W. J. Wilgus, vice-president New York Central &Hudson River Railroad Company. Soon after the organiza-tion of the commission very active work was begun to deviseways and means for carrying out investigations on all avail-able types of electric railway apparatus now in use or that isbeing placed on
. The Street railway journal . hite, president J. G. White& Company, New York, chairman; Yreeland, president New York City Railway Company, New York; George F. McCulloch, presi-dent Indiana Union Traction Company, Anderson, Ind.; JamesH. McGraw, president McGraw Publishing Company, NewYork, and W. J. Wilgus, vice-president New York Central &Hudson River Railroad Company. Soon after the organiza-tion of the commission very active work was begun to deviseways and means for carrying out investigations on all avail-able types of electric railway apparatus now in use or that isbeing placed on the market. those associated in the manufacture, the construction, theoperation and the study of electric railways that the arrange-ments are now assuming so gratifying scope. The Exposition has come to the assistance of the commis-sion, and set apart for its use terminals and tracks sufficientto accommodate twenty-four standard cars, and provide for thetests of these cars under all ordinary conditions likely to be met. CASCADES AND THE ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN. with in city or local interurban traffic. To take care of themore extended tests, recourse has been had to the very generousoffer of the Indiana Union Traction Company, which has pro-vided complete facilities for carrying on the high-speed testsin so far as a heavily ballasted, heavily railed, high-power line,level and straight for a distance of 8 miles, can meet suchrequirements. The electric railway test tracks and test-track terminals atSt. Louis are entirely on the Exposition grounds. The test May 7, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 679 tracks parallel the Transportation Building, running east andwest along its north side. The test track terminals are to thewest of the Transportation Building, and just north of thesection of the grounds which is devoted to the foreign build-ings. Everything is very conveniently arranged, as the tracksare quite near the powerplant in the west end of Ma-chinery Hall, as well asbeing within eas
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