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English: «View of Allgemaine Elektricitaets Gesellschaft car taken immediately after the record run» (original caption)

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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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gradually become awareof the practical limits which oppose its development. It seems evi-dent that on account of the heavy weight of this type of engine thatspeeds of say 95 miles per hour are all that can possibly be boindfor from the steam locomotive. .\part from the special advantages inherent in electric service the thence to Mariiufelde /iissen. The line was constructed after themodel of the (iross-l.iclUerfelde experimental track and the samearrangement of the conductors and eolleeturs as well as the samekind of current was used. The Marienfeldc-Zpssen military line Ia 2,\ km. long and seemedspecially available, as it contains no curves of less than 2,000 m.radius and the short gradients being not more than i in j.coo. Thepermanent way, however, was similar to that of the older types ofPrussian railways, consisting of light rails, 67 lb. per yard, placedpartly on wooden sleepers and partly on short iron sleepers. Theroadbed was built mainly of inferior mnlerial. Allbougb it was
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VIEW (IF ALI.GEMEINE El.EKTKICITAETS CEStl.l Sfll AhT (AH TAKEN IMM EDIATKI-V AFTFK TIIF KFciKIl lilN. pnjlilcm of high speed electric traction appeals to the mind of every-one interested in the progress of modern life. Four years ago two• if the most prominent exponents of electrical engineering, Mr.Kalhenau and Mr. Schwicger, happened to meet on a journey toMilan in a sleeping car, and their exchange of views on this subjectresulted in a conibin.ilion of the two big electrical concerns ofGermany, the Siemens & Ilalske Co. and the Allgemeine Klektrici-lacts (jescllachafi, with a view of studying the (jueslion of high speed■ in electric r.iilways. The Ma^icnfeldc-Z(>^scn military railway, nearllerlin, was lent for the purpose and some of the leading (iermanliaiiking firms as well as the authorities concerned gave their sup-port to the new undertaking. The Siemens & Ilalske Co. under-Inok the construction of the line Hiipplying the electric power and theAllgemeine KIcklr

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Alfred Gradenwitz: “The Marienfelde-Zossen High Speed Trials” The Street Railway Review XIV:6 (1904.07.20): p.465

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