. The Street railway journal . ELECTRIC RAILWAY AT MONTGOMERY, ALA. Commenting onthe successful inau-guration of this sys-tem the St. PaulPioneer Press said: The car was run upto Washington Ave-nue with only a fewslight detentionscaused by the par-tial disarrangementof some of theoverhead wires. Inthe mean time thecrowd of spectatorsincreased until the. is driven by an old slide-valve engine,12 X 18 cylinder, making 125 revolutionsper minute. The consumption of coal is;• bout 3,000 pounds for seventeen hours run. GENERATOR. sidewalks were hterally filled from First toFourth Street, while an op
. The Street railway journal . ELECTRIC RAILWAY AT MONTGOMERY, ALA. Commenting onthe successful inau-guration of this sys-tem the St. PaulPioneer Press said: The car was run upto Washington Ave-nue with only a fewslight detentionscaused by the par-tial disarrangementof some of theoverhead wires. Inthe mean time thecrowd of spectatorsincreased until the. is driven by an old slide-valve engine,12 X 18 cylinder, making 125 revolutionsper minute. The consumption of coal is;• bout 3,000 pounds for seventeen hours run. GENERATOR. sidewalks were hterally filled from First toFourth Street, while an open air mass meet-ing was held at the corner of WashingtonAvenae. This motor was moved back and forth several times between Washing-ton Avenue and First Street, the platformof the car being covered with spectators andwith enterprising curiosity hunters hang-ing to every available projection. Here theelectric motor remained, until the fouroclock train arrived from the lake. Thelatter went out on its regular time, andafter it had reached Third Street, Mr. VanDepoele crossed Washington Avenue andstarted in pursuit. The rate of speed onthe outgoing trip was about equal to thatmade by the regular train, the electric ma-chinery passing the switch above FourthStreet without detention, and maldng theaspent at that point without apparent diffi-culiy. As
Size: 1477px × 1692px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
