Electric railway gazette (1895) (14758587314)

Identifier: electricrailwayg05newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway gazette
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: New York : (W.J. Johnston Co.)
Contributing Library: MIT Libraries
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ntion enough power wassaved to enable the storage battery even in itspresent development to do the work required ofit. He also believed that the frequent recharg-ing of the batteries while in service increasedtheir endurance. Col. Hewins tlien illustrated the system bystereopticon views and explained its working ingreater detail. He also said in answer to a ques-tion that on the Beverly and Danvers road the;batteries were recharged after 30 miles of work.On an ordinary level road the recharging wouldbe done only every 40 miles. Lpril, 1890 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. 55 Electric Cars in a Snow Storm. A view taken during tlie recent snow storm inBoston, is shown in the accompanying illustra-ion. It was exceedingly unfortunate that dur-ng this snow storm there was a stoppage of the Low Speed Automatic Engine.* The present demands upon a steam engineare quite different from those of twenty or eventen years ago. The advent of electric lightingbrought a necessity for absolute regulation of
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ilectric cars at just about six oclock, which wasery inconvenient to the travelling public, andlerved to cause a good deal of criticism on theystem in general, which criticism is not merited,or the facts of the case simply are, that an at-empt was made to do much more work than therevas power for at the generating station. As caneadily be seen, it requires more power to ope-■ate cars under the many difficulties of that day)f snow and ice, and pushing snow sweepershan under ordinary conditions. When the machines became overloaded, of;ourse they were obliged to shut down, and al-hough several attempts to start up were made,he fact was that as soon as the current wasurned on, every car on the line would attempt,0 start, which would cause another overload,md thus prevent any of them from starting ; un-;il affairs were so arranged that the cars werestarted in certain numbers. While sufficient power is at hand to maintoinin efficient and reliable service under normalconditions of travel a