. The Street railway journal . then delivered by twosub-stations—one at the Quai dOrsay and the other at theQuai dAusterlitz, where the old depot stands. The localcurrent distribution system comprises a third rail externalto the track and an overhead contact in the tunnel at theentrance to the Quai dOrsay, so that each locomotive isprovided with three sliding-shoe collectors and with twooverhead trolleys, for the double service. Fuller detailsof all this highly important work will be given at the propertime. In the immediate vicinity of this compact looking elec- tric locomotive are a great ma
. The Street railway journal . then delivered by twosub-stations—one at the Quai dOrsay and the other at theQuai dAusterlitz, where the old depot stands. The localcurrent distribution system comprises a third rail externalto the track and an overhead contact in the tunnel at theentrance to the Quai dOrsay, so that each locomotive isprovided with three sliding-shoe collectors and with twooverhead trolleys, for the double service. Fuller detailsof all this highly important work will be given at the propertime. In the immediate vicinity of this compact looking elec- tric locomotive are a great many steam locomotives of thehighest state of development, and the contrast both inshape and in mechanism naturally attracts a great deal ofattention. It is not alone in electric locomotives that theinitiative may be said to be due to American practise, foronly the other day quite a dispute arose in the Chamber ofDeputies owing to the fact that in one of the State railroadexhibits at Vincennes an American steam locomotive was. ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE FOR PARIS-ORLEANS R. R., VINCENNES shown in all its glory, whereupon the inquiry arose whyFrench locomotives were not good enough for systems inwhich the State itself had an interest. It is not to be under-stood that France or any other power of Europe is aboutto adopt the American style of locomotive, electric orsteam, but there is no question that American practise asexemplified at this exposition is destined to have a greatinfluence. ♦♦♦ Compressed Air Cars in New York Considerable interest has been aroused by the proposalof the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, of NewYork, to change the type of compressed air motors in useon its Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth Streets has already been made to the fact that theHardiemotors are to be used on this line in place of the motorswhich have been employed, and which were described atlength in the Street Railway Journal for June, reasons for this change can
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