Engineering problems in electric elevated and suburban railroading (1899)
Sprague, Frank J. · s.n., · leaf 10
roughout the train, the mains carried through it, andthe system governed by a controller at the leading end. One of the earliest of these proposals was made be-fore the Society of Arts, in Tloston, in 1885, just priorto conducting experiments 011 the Elevated Railroad,at which time 1 eon t em… … is apt to concentrate loads, increase the lime intervals, andlet the passenger wait, but in so doing he may lose thepassenger. With a locomotive car system this is the inevitable re-sult, because otherwise the entire motive equipmentWOilld be kept in continuous operation at low economyand at great…
Local transit -- Design and construction -- 19th century · Electrical engineering -- Safety measures -- 19th century
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