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Identifier: electricrailway421913newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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One of the New Triplet Storage Battery Cars, Prussian State Railway Prussian-Hessian State Railways. The accompanying illus-tration shows one of these cars ready for use. The generalarrangement of the end cars is like that of the standardtwin articulated design which has been developed for theserailways, but the middle car has been added primarily togive larger baggage and postal compartments or a greatervariety of passenger classes. If the three cars are usedexclusively for passengers, the passenger capacity is 167, material can be carried on the work train hauled by thelocomotive. In the winter when freight business is lightthe locomotive is fitted with a snow plow. At other timesthe locomotive may be used for switching, coal, lumber,emigrant cars, freight, express and baggage service andalso for construction work. Up to the present time norepairs have been needed during over one year of service.In view of the fact that the locomotive was ready to
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Electric Locomotive of Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice Railway Hauling Freight Cars but if baggage and postal compartments are provided, thepassenger capacity is reduced to 118. As in the other cars,the batteries, which are mounted in cabs at the ends, werefurnished by the Accumutatoren-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft.The battery manufacturer iiates that the contract price forthe maintenance of its standard batteries, as noted in theElectric Railway Journal for Oct. 4, should have been handle freight, the management of the road induced manu-facturers to locate their plants at different points on thesystem. While the present freight service is not sufficientto keep the locomotive constantly at work, traffic is steadilyincreasing. On the 8-mile line between Lincoln, UniversityPlace and Bethany, this locomotive handles 2000 to 2500loaded cars in and out a year. November i, 1913.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 989 LONDON LETTER (From Our Regular Correspondent) With regard to the offer made recently by

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  • bookyear:1908
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • bookpublisher:_New_York__McGraw_Hill_Pub__Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:1011
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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