. The street railway review . plant in .■Vkron, O. A contract has alsobeen closed with the Electric Storage Battery Co. for a batteryinstallation, consisting of 28S G-9 elements in G-13 tanks, in therailway plant at Bedford, O. The battery is to be installed com-plete with booster and switchboard. With the addition of the aboveequipment the company will be able to operate with either direct oralternating current The Freight Traffic of the Ohio River Electric Railway & Power Co. UV I. OPPENHEIMER, SUPERINTENDENT. Tlie Ohio River Klectric Railway & Pf>wer Co. operates of electr
. The street railway review . plant in .■Vkron, O. A contract has alsobeen closed with the Electric Storage Battery Co. for a batteryinstallation, consisting of 28S G-9 elements in G-13 tanks, in therailway plant at Bedford, O. The battery is to be installed com-plete with booster and switchboard. With the addition of the aboveequipment the company will be able to operate with either direct oralternating current The Freight Traffic of the Ohio River Electric Railway & Power Co. UV I. OPPENHEIMER, SUPERINTENDENT. Tlie Ohio River Klectric Railway & Pf>wer Co. operates of electric railway between Middleport, Pomeroy, Miners-ville, Syracuse and Racine. This road possesses unique and inter-esting features in its method of handling freight and developing roads soliciting freight Iraflic, this electric road has the uniciucfeature in not being a competitor of a steam road, but on the con-trary, it has, since its inception, been a feeder to and created muchnew business for the Mocking Valley Ry,. LOroMOTrVF, WITH .\T IlTTSPUR;; MINING CO. SWITCH. that branch of the business. Hie road parallels the Ohio River,and serves the largest undeveloped coal field in Ohio. The pro-moters seeing the future possibilities of -freight development in thisterritory, in building the road, used standard steam road construc-tion throughout. Sharp curves and heavy grades were avoided, .-\ transfer switch to the Hocking Valley Rys. tracks is locatedin Pomeroy, a distance of nine miles from the Racine terminus,between which points are located machine shops, salt, bromine andcalcium works. foundries, lumber yard and coal mines, all connectedwith the electric line by eleven switches with capacities varyingfr-m 2 to .^0 cars each, several of which arc illustrated.
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