The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-24

Z nave so Tar advanced the pOssibiliti'
e OF general electrical service that raj
: road men Of America have been closel
watching its strides. In many par
Of the country the utility of the mote
has been demonstrated.
Everywhere outreaching trolley line
have wrought havoc with the suburba
business of steam railroads east of tn
Mississippi. The usual steam railroa
fares are from two to three cents
mile, while the long interurban trolle
lines haul passengers at from one +
one and a half cents.
Multiplying steam trains to NEE
travel requirements is more expensiv,
than increasing electrical facilities
With the steam road, the fixed charges
cost of fuel and engine labor, increas,
| with each additional locomotive.
While large amount of capital Is
| required to establish electrical service
in the construction of power houses
and transmission systems, the proper.
tionate cost of subsequent expansion is
not so great.
1t is estimated, too, that a high
class freight service, in light, swiftly
moving electric trains which can be
readily divided and distributed, will
prove at once an economical and pay
ing proposition.
ELECTRICITY Is Economical.
Electricity applied to short stretches
Of road formerly under steam has
demonstrated a striking economy and
effectiveness. Between Lockport and
Tonawanda, n. Y, distance of fifteen
miles, branch of the Erie has been
electrified and leased by the Buffalo
and Lockport Railroad. Only freight
is hauled over this line. and 160-ton
locomotives are used. The results have
been very satisfactory.
Full grown freight trains are electri-
cally operated about Buffalo by the
international Railway. The Chicago,
Harvard and Geneva Lake Railway
handles, in the same way, the steam
freight cars of the Chicago and North
western system without breaking bulk.
Trains of eighteen freight cars are
hauled with success by the 50-ton mo-
tors of the st. Louis and Illinois Sub
urban Railway. This is exclusively a
freight road and claims to be the pio-
neer electrical freight line in the coun-
Try.
At HOboken, n. j., the Shore Line |
S an electrically equipped section de-
rOted to steam road terminal distribu-
ion and dock work.
AS the tracks are numerous and the
ravel of cars in switching is generally
hort, a great saving is effected by
the use of steam locomo-
ives.
From Indianapolis TO Muncie Ind,
g miles, trolley coaches as large and
S heavy as the average steam car are
rawn by 300 horsepower motors.
Jpon part of the route a speed of
nile minute is maintained.
a mile minute schedule has been
ranged for the Indianapolis, Leba-
ON and Frankfort Railway. Motors
n the Albany and Hudson line work
p to so miles an hour; on the Nantas-
ct Beach line, to 40 miles, and on the
Drain and Cleveland line, TO 80 miles.
Between Schenectady and Albany,
Y. n heavy double track electric
rstem is operated at high speed for
9TH express and accommodation
aims.
1t would appear, therefore, that con.
ait advances in construction and the
,olution Of more powerful motors will !,
eet all speed requirements for inter.
ban service.
Were it not for a few breaks here
I'd there. one might now travel by :,
olley from Portland, Me, almost TO
,ntral Nebraska.
From Portland is an easy Journey to
Dston; thence nearly across Massa- :
Iusetts the trolley lines run. net 9
Drk of shorter routes stretches across
wv York State, although all are not :
as yet for through transit
At gainesville, Ohio, one finds
'aight, unbroken communication q
rough Cleveland. Toledo and Detroit -
the principal cities or Western
chisan, whence ready outlet to Chi \
90 exists.
Recently trolley construction has Il
an rapidly pushed through Iowa, G.
d west Of Omaha, in Nebraska.
When few connecting links have
IN made one may journey half across
; continent to the continual hum of
, trolley.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, dc
ffalo and Pittsburg are great trolley al
tiers From Pittsburg lines radiate he
every direction. some fifty miles or r.
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