. Review of reviews and world's work. nt electric locomotiveon the New York Central & Hudson River Rail-road last month pulled nine heavy cars at sixty-nine miles an hour, covering the distance in alittle more than three minutes. Such has beenthe progress of a century in transportation. The possibilities of the electric locomotive inthe way of speed, easy travel, and rapid startingand stopping received conclusive and graphicdemonstration at the trial of the locomotive builtby the General Electric Company and the Ameri-can Locomotive Company for the New YorkCentral & Hudson River Railroad. This
. Review of reviews and world's work. nt electric locomotiveon the New York Central & Hudson River Rail-road last month pulled nine heavy cars at sixty-nine miles an hour, covering the distance in alittle more than three minutes. Such has beenthe progress of a century in transportation. The possibilities of the electric locomotive inthe way of speed, easy travel, and rapid startingand stopping received conclusive and graphicdemonstration at the trial of the locomotive builtby the General Electric Company and the Ameri-can Locomotive Company for the New YorkCentral & Hudson River Railroad. This trialwas made on November 12, on a fine well-bal-lasted piece of track extending from Schenectadyto Hoffmans, in the presence of a party of elec-trical experts, railroad men, and journalists, theguests of the electric traction commission of therailroad, and a great crowd of spectators. Themembers of the invited party, who had the priv-ilege of riding in the cab during one of thebursts of high speed, were surprised and grati-. OVERHEAD SPECIAL WOUK. <Tln overhead wire by which the motive power is suppliedni crossings; showing also suii-si ation and barn.) fied at the ease and comparative lack of noisewith which the monster locomotive drew itsfive-hundred-ton load. The New York Central Railroad has justcompleted arrangements to electrically equipits service as far as Croton, thirty-four milesout on the main line, and AVhite Plains, twenty-four miles out, on the Harlem division. Assoon as the roadbed and third - rail can bemade ready (in the fall of 1906, it is expected),the electric service will be installed. It is theintention of the railroad company to substitute,at Croton and White Plains, the electric forthe steam locomotive on all the heavy throughtraffic, the change consuming but a minute ortwo, which will be made up by the higher speedpossible with the new motive power. Thesub-urban local traffic will be handled in individualmotor cars, after the manner of the subwaytr
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