Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Street Railway Association (1897)
American Street Railway Association. Meeting · Chicago : Office of the Association · leaf 167
ps in twenty-six minutes; to be obliged to do this in order to connect with boats arriving at regular half hour intervals and to keep out of the way of frequent regular steam trains on the main line of the Plymouth division; to allow but four minutes at each end for unloading, switch- ing… … day in and day out, in regular service, through an entire summer; these are things which cannot possibly be accomplished by steam loco- motives. Now, the reason why electricity can do this and steam cannot, is found in the tremendous accelerating power of properly designed electric motors, with…
Electric railroads · Street-railroads · Transportation · Urban transportation
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