Word: rails
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...operate in parallel with turbo-units in limiting the excessive rush of short-circuit burn-outs. The direct current end of the system was then discussed. On the Interborough Rapid Transit Company about 88 per cent, of the alternating current power which is generated is delivered to the third rail. The losses which are sustained take place as follows: transmission, 2 per cent.; transformers, 3 per cent.; converters, 5 per cent.; and auxiliaries, 2 per cent...
Yesterday afternoon the first passenger train was run through the new Cambridge subway from the Park street terminal to the Harvard square station. The train consisted of three of the new style cars and the third rail was electrified throughout its entire length to provide power...
...weather conditions permit, the Boston Elevated Railway Company ex-poets to have the straight rail tracks in position on Massachusetts avenue between Putnam and Harvard squares this morning. The curved rails and switches will be laid tomorrow: and cars will go by this route on Monday morning...
...Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Julius Kruttschnitt, Director of Maintenance and Operation of the Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line, and Southern Pacific Rail-roads, will speak here this spring under the auspices of the Graduate School of Business Administration. The date of Mr. MacVeagh's lecture, which will probably be on "Business Standards," has not been definitely decided, but it will be given sometime during the latter part of March or early in April; and the date of Mr. Kruttschnitt's lecture on the "Operating Efficiency of our Railroads" will be April 26. Both lectures will...
Work on the three Cambridge divisions of the subway was completed on January 21 and it now it only remains to finish the stations and completed on the equipment, such as laying the conduits for the third rail system. On January 23 a party with 11 automobiles went through the entire length of the subway from the West Boston bridge to the Murray street yards of the Elevated Company beyond Harvard square. The floors of the two tubes have been cleared and are now ready for the tracks. These will be laid at once and it is hoped that...