Engineering Preliminaries For An Interurban Electric Railway Classic Reprint

Author : Horace Field Parshall
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333936075
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Electric Railway Engineering (Classic Reprint) written by Horace Field Parshall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electric Railway Engineering While the mechanical fitness of an electrical system has been proved by such installations as the Baltimore Tunnel, the New York New Haven and Hartford Rail way, the New York Central, the north-eastern, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Central London Railway, the commercial limitations imposed by its relatively greater first cost have yet to be demonstrated. The installations under construction, like those of the New York Central, the New York New Haven and Hartford, and the Pennsylvania Railways, ' will go far towards demonstrating the extent to which electric traction may compete with the steam locomotive. The considerations which have led to the adoption of electric traction on the larger steam railways have generally been peculiar to the local circumstances. For instance, in the cases of the Baltimore Tunnel and the New York Central Railway the first con sideration was to avoid the smoke nuisance in tunnels. With regard to the latter railway, once the necessity for electric traction had been realised, the question of additional improvements was taken into consideration, and such elaborate alterations to sidings, stations, and terminal arrangements were deemed advisable to suit the more rapid electrical working, that the cost as a whole was several times that necessarily incident to the change from steam to electricity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.