The Electric Railroad Revolution.
Last Thursday’s achievement of fifty miles an hour for a distaneo of ten blocks by an electric train on tho Manhattan u L ” is only a feeble foretaste of electric travel in tho future. In the recent electric-train experiments at Zosscn, Germany, interestingly described by Thomas Commerford Martin in the current Review of Reviews, a speed of 100 miles an hour lias been actually recorded, and the practicability of running at 140 miles an hour has been demonstrated. The lino from Berlin to Zossen is 14) miles long, with grades up to 1) per cent., and includes some rather sharp curves. Over this line u single car, weighing with all its appliauoes 190,000 pounds and carrying fifty passengers, has been driven at the speed named by an electric current fed to three overhead wires at a pressure of 12,000 volts from a Borlin power-house nine and a half miles away from tho feeding-in point. Tho car is fitted with four polyphase motors, with a normal output’ of over 1000 horse-power and a maximum of 3000. At 960 revolutions per minute of its rotary part, which is mounted directly on each of its three axles, the car reaches the startling speed of fully 140 miles an hour—two and onethird milos per minute. This amazing speed can bo made the normal rate in every railroad-using country wherever tracks and road-beds are provided strong enough to make it safe. Within a few years, then, 140 milos an hour electric trains will be numerously running between many if not all first-class American cities and tho country round about them. This means that we are on the eve of a many-sided revolution—in travelling conditions, in city and country living conditions, in tho values and rentals of real estate alike in town and country. To breakfast in Boston and be at business at 10 o’clock in Now York, lunching in Philadelphia at 1 o’clock on tho afternoon of the same day and breakfasting the next morning in Chicago—these are but a few hints of what will be done within tho first decade of this electrified and enchanted century.—Now York World.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 359, 8 March 1902, Page 4
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358The Electric Railroad Revolution. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 359, 8 March 1902, Page 4
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