. Electric railway journal . Mules Attached to Light-Weight Trolley Car After Fire Work is now being rushed day and night on a new lire-proof 2500-kw power station. The new power plant willbe far removed from the center of the city. It is expectedto be completed and in operation by Jan. 1, 1914. \V. , chief engineer Federal Light & Traction Company,is in active charge of construction. Lee Skipwith, purchas-ing agent of the company in New York, is handling thepurchases. TRACKLESS TROLLEYS IN ENGLAND During the last year or two the R. E. T. ConstructionCompany, Ltd., London, Eng., has in
. Electric railway journal . Mules Attached to Light-Weight Trolley Car After Fire Work is now being rushed day and night on a new lire-proof 2500-kw power station. The new power plant willbe far removed from the center of the city. It is expectedto be completed and in operation by Jan. 1, 1914. \V. , chief engineer Federal Light & Traction Company,is in active charge of construction. Lee Skipwith, purchas-ing agent of the company in New York, is handling thepurchases. TRACKLESS TROLLEYS IN ENGLAND During the last year or two the R. E. T. ConstructionCompany, Ltd., London, Eng., has installed a number oftrackless trolley lines in several British cities like Leeds,Bradford and Dundee. With the inauguration of theroutes at Ramsbottom, however, this company reached thepoint of installing complete systems instead of extensionsalone. The progress of the system seems due to the su-periority of the trolley to the gasoline bus in point of costand popularitv with the public, and also to the adaptability. Trackless Trolley Rounding Terminal of the trackless trolley to narrow streets which are notsuitable for tracks. The trackless car possesses the flexi-bility of the ordinary omnibus since it can receive and dis-charge passengers at the curb and swerve to the oppositeside of the roadway when necessary to pass opposingvehicles. It is asserted that the investment for the system is less than one-fifth of the capital needed for a double-track street railway of the same length when constructedunder English city conditions. A feature of this companyssystem is that the bus may be operated easily over ordinarytrack sections by taking down the return circuit pole andlowering a contact shoe to the rail.
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