Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Street Railway Association (1897)
American Street Railway Association. Meeting · Chicago : Office of the Association · leaf 169
ximum speed of thirty-nine miles is reached. The entire dis- tance is covered, in regular service, at an average speed of 24.6 miles per hour, including stops. Between Hartford and New Britain, the 9.3 miles distance is covered regularly by motor cars with two trailers in from eighteen to twenty… … Distance in Miles FIG. 4. covered in ten minutes. The alignment and profile of this road is shown in Fig. 4. On this line, a 52-ton train often reaches a maximum speed of fifty miles per hour. The current is cut off at twenty-nine grade crossings when single car trains are run. It is worthy of…
Electric railroads · Street-railroads · Transportation · Urban transportation
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