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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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gton and Philadelphia. The entire trip will oc-cupy from six to seven weeks, of which from fifteento seventeen days will be occupied by the ocean voyage.The party will spend one day at Niagara Falls on the tripbetween Boston anod Chicago. The cost of the trip, in-cluding the steamship travel, railroad fares, etc., is esti-mated at about M3,ooo per person. This is considered anoutside figure, and should include all expenses. HeinrichVellguth, secretary of the association, has the details of thetrip in charge. 6i8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVI. No. 27. Form of Tram for Reducing Air Resistance Although somewhat outside of electric railroading theexperiments now being carried on by Frederic U. Adamson the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in an effort to reduceair resistance, will be of some interest to workers in highspeed electric railroading, whether the results prove suc-cessful or not. A great many attempts have been made toreduce this part of a trains resistance, a factor which, at
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FRONT END OF TRAIN high speeds, is undoubtedly a very important one. Thesubject was quite thoroughly discussed in a series ofarticles in the Street Railway Journal about a yearago, in which one writer, Henry Graftio, formerly chief en-gineer of the Heilmann Company, of France, stated thathe believed that a form of train in which the spaces be-

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