. American engineer and railroad journal . rk Central & Hudson River RailroadCompany by the General Electric Company and the AmericanLocomotive Company, differ radically in their electrical feat-ures from any electric locomotive hitherto constructed. Thisdesign was submitted in accordance with specifications pre-pared by the Electric Traction Commission, appointed by the These conditions required an electric locomotive capable ofmaking two regular successive trips of one hour each betweenGrand Central Station and Croton, with a total train weightof 550 tons, a single stop in each direction, an
. American engineer and railroad journal . rk Central & Hudson River RailroadCompany by the General Electric Company and the AmericanLocomotive Company, differ radically in their electrical feat-ures from any electric locomotive hitherto constructed. Thisdesign was submitted in accordance with specifications pre-pared by the Electric Traction Commission, appointed by the These conditions required an electric locomotive capable ofmaking two regular successive trips of one hour each betweenGrand Central Station and Croton, with a total train weightof 550 tons, a single stop in each direction, and a lay-over notto exceed 20 minutes. In addition to this, it was provided thata similar schedule should be maintained with somewhatlighter trains making more frequent stops. Finally, it wasprovided that with a total train weight of 435 tons, the electriclocomotive should be able to run from Grand Central Stationto Croton, without stop, in 44 minutes, and, with one hour lay-over, be able to keep up this service continuously. This last. _p ii jL.»,^aasw NEW ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE, NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD. IIY GENERA! ELECTRIC COMPANY AND AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COM TAN Y. railroad company, the members of which are Messrs. William , fifth vice-president, N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R.; John , general superintendent of motive power of the railroadcompany; Bion J. Arnold, Frank J. Sprague and George secretary of this commission is Mr. Edwin B. Katte, elec-trical engineer of the railroad company. This commission,after careful deliberation, had prescribed the conditions whichmust be fulfilled by electric locomotives taking the place ofsteam locomotives as far as ,Croton on the Hudson River Line,and as far as North White Plains on the Harlem Division, dis-tances of 34 miles and 24 miles respectively. schedule is the equivalent of the present timing of the EmpireState Express, though the latter has a somewhat lighter train. The successful bidders were the General Electric
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