. Electric railway gazette . Observatory Hill Passenger Railway—Bentley-Knight System Thomson-Houston system is far superior to allothers especially in the economy of its expectation of the projectors of the demands of travel frequently compel theuse of two tow cars with each motor car, and thereceipts of a single train have been $too test the apparatus recentlywhen the rear car in a train ofthree cars jumped the track atthe foot of a six per cent, grade,the motor car was started andpulled the train up the gradeat a fair rate of speed, draggingthe rear c
. Electric railway gazette . Observatory Hill Passenger Railway—Bentley-Knight System Thomson-Houston system is far superior to allothers especially in the economy of its expectation of the projectors of the demands of travel frequently compel theuse of two tow cars with each motor car, and thereceipts of a single train have been $too test the apparatus recentlywhen the rear car in a train ofthree cars jumped the track atthe foot of a six per cent, grade,the motor car was started andpulled the train up the gradeat a fair rate of speed, draggingthe rear car over the pavingstones. In the opinion of themanagement of the Topeka roadthe Thomson-Houston com-pany rate their motors muchbelow their maximum capacity,as it would seem that the 20 equipment which is in use onthe cars at Topeka has shownan efficiency as high as 30 or40 h. p. The Observatory HillPassenger Railway, Alle-gheny, Pa. Our cut shows one of thedouble motor cars now in useupon the Observatory Hill Railway of AlleghenyCity, Pa. This road is one ofthe oldest electric railways inthe country, its cars having beenin continuous service since De-cember, 1887
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