Show Z 1 I 1 I 1 j I 1 elea of louir lone eunit T lines 10 W wib has paid much at te n t I 1 0 A vi et ct of the application of electricity as a motive power on existing steam lines says it is a mistake to suppose that electric traction Is till in an experimental stage almost every question connected with the subject has been already settled and results have in every case been favorable to electricity so far as it has been tried the experimental 1 intramural road gave results so far beyond the most sanguine expects expectations t ions that within a few months one of the longest de rated systems sy sterns in chicalo chical o was similarly equipped the latest striking nutce s in electric traction has been achieved in the operation of the special tives made for hauling trains emins through the baltimore the locomotive proved so powerful that no known know I 1 I 1 method of testing is sufficient in it its 3 I 1 scope to determine their efficiency 1 dr r I 1 duncan believes these locomotives loco mothes moties will pull any train that will hold itself together the only obstacle existing today in the equipment of long trunk lines economically is the transmission of power the fact that power generated at niagara la para falls is now being delivered in new york miles off with a loss of only y half balf its efficiency is id of the utmost significance and it luis liis P probably done more than any recent event to strengthen the belief that tile the pr problem of cheap tra transmission D sill assion of power will ill soon be work worked cd out dr duncan is con confident that I 1 the lie next few years will see trains run from buffalo east ward to new york and westward to chicago by electricity and that the vast culm piles pile of usel uel as the source of power for the ivania railway system bet beewen between wen pittsburg and new ark york |