. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e of twenty-seven miles,combined with the Trenton Branch Service. These cars have been in successful operation in lieuof all local steam service and have been operating with up to this time have been equipped with what is knownas the single unit power plant and have been placed inlocal runs, mostly on branch lines where the service didnot call for more than a one or two car train. Someof the cars now being built will have dual power plantsand will be used in somewhat heavier service, of simil
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e of twenty-seven miles,combined with the Trenton Branch Service. These cars have been in successful operation in lieuof all local steam service and have been operating with up to this time have been equipped with what is knownas the single unit power plant and have been placed inlocal runs, mostly on branch lines where the service didnot call for more than a one or two car train. Someof the cars now being built will have dual power plantsand will be used in somewhat heavier service, of similarcharacter, however. They have been distributed widely over the systemso that they now encounter diversified operating con-ditions. We have found them to be reliable and satis-factory and well adapted to the performance of the kindof service these runs require whenever it does not varytoo much from day to day and from season to seasonand does not call for too much variation in train consistto permit keeping it within the limits of the capacity ofthe power plant carried. Where these conditions are. Branch Line Terminal Showing Gas-Electric Car in Service three cars and a spare, an aggregate of between fourteenand fifteen thousand miles per month. Two additional cars of the multiple power plant typeare on order and will be delivered about July 1, for usebetween Wilmington and Reading, a distance of sixtymiles, and the Reading Company has in contemplationfurther extension of this class of service on variousBranch lines. The substitution of this equipment for steam servicehas resulted in very material saving in operating costswithout reduction in service. The substitution of this class of equipment has beencommented upon favorably by our patrons. The Chicago & North Western, operating 15 cars andwith 10 more on order, finds gas-electric cars reliableand satisfactory and money savers. Mr. George , Assistant to the President of that company saysthis: The North Western began us
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