ELLVATED RAILWAYS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4295, 2 March 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

ELLVATED RAILWAYS.

The long-lcoked-for trial of the thirdrail system on the New York elevated roads was recently carried out on the Second Avenue branch, when six trips were mad© between 54th Street and 92nd Street. The trial tt-ain, says the “Scientific American,” consisted of six cars, tho two end cars being each equipped with four motors. The two motor cars were arranged so that tho cabs were respectively at the front and rear ends cf 'he train. The trip from 92nd Street to's4th Street, a distance of thirty-eight blocks, was run in four minutes, at a speed of thirty miles an hour. The superiority of the motors over the old f»team locomotives was shown in the rapid acceleration, and the substitution of the air-brake for the old vacuum brake was noticeable m the greater rapidity with which the stops were made. Judging from the results achieved on the rails, it is expected that the trains will run from the Battery to 155th Street on the Sixth Avenue line in forty minutes, instead of forty-nine* minutes, which was the time taken under ihe old system. The new and the old cars are similar in appearance, the former being semewhat wider. In place of the old steam heating and oil lighting, they will,*, of course, be lighted and heated bv electricity.