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Title: Electric railways

Creator: American School of Correspondence

Author: James Raley Cravath

Contributor: Harris C. Trow

Release date: February 4, 2025 [eBook #75289]

Language: English

Original publication: Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1907

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INTERIOR OF 160-TON B. AND O. ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE.
General Electric Company.

Electric Railways

A Treatise on the
MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC TRACTION, INCLUDING PRACTICAL
INSTRUCTION IN THE LATEST APPROVED METHODS
OF ELECTRIC RAILROAD EQUIPMENT
AND OPERATION

ELECTRIC RAILWAYS

By James R. Cravath
Western Editor “The Street Railway Journal”

THE SINGLE-PHASE ELECTRIC RAILWAY

By Harris C. Trow, S.B.
American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Editor Textbook Department,
American School of Correspondence

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CORRESPONDENCE
1908