. Electric railway gazette . £RB FRICTION BRAKE. count of his connection with New York street rail-ways. Mr. Shamley is a well-known railway (con-tractor; Mr. Waterbury is president of the Manhat-tan Trust Company, of New York ; Mr. Ryan istreasurer of the Metropolitan Traction Company; lation and coining into contact with the bare cop-per. When the pin was drawn out to ascertain ifthis was the cause of the trouble, it was found tobo red hot, and after its removal the cars movedas usual. Vol. XI. No. 30. STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. 205 CONDUIT ELEOTBIC BAIWAYS : IS THEREA SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM ;
. Electric railway gazette . £RB FRICTION BRAKE. count of his connection with New York street rail-ways. Mr. Shamley is a well-known railway (con-tractor; Mr. Waterbury is president of the Manhat-tan Trust Company, of New York ; Mr. Ryan istreasurer of the Metropolitan Traction Company; lation and coining into contact with the bare cop-per. When the pin was drawn out to ascertain ifthis was the cause of the trouble, it was found tobo red hot, and after its removal the cars movedas usual. Vol. XI. No. 30. STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. 205 CONDUIT ELEOTBIC BAIWAYS : IS THEREA SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM ; » BY JOSEPH SACHS. Scarcely a dozen years ago we did not have asingle inch. I may say, of electric railway in ex-istence. To-day there are hundrf ds of miles inthis country alone: but, strange to say, althoughits advance has been rsost phenomenal and thesuccess ot the so-called deadly trolley has been. Blackpool System. very great, there has existed a most extensive de-mand for a substitute for the trolley which shouldbe free from the various objections which are iii-herent in the overhead wire; and although wehave advanced in the construction and operationof motors and gearing and power-house machinery,we still remain at the same point that we did atthe very beginning in the method of distributingthe power to the motor on the car, namely, bymeans of an overhead bare wire. Now two sub-stitutes have appeared to solve this problem : onehas been the storage battery and the other hasbeen the underground or conduit system. Thestorage-battery car does not need to be explained ;you are all familiar with it, and I need only saythat, although the storage battery has proved afailure in the past and a severe loss to many ofthose who have invested money in enterprises ofthat kind, yet recent successes in that directionlead us to believe that it is more than a possibility,in fact a very great pr
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