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Electric Railway Economics and Preliminary Engineering, Notes on By W C Gotshal
Electric Railway Economics and Preliminary Engineering, Notes on By W C Gotshall Hard Cover 1903 251 pages plus one fold out page.
This book is based upon a series of lectures which I delivered at Lehigh University, last spring, the subject of which dealt with the economics of the preliminary and other determinations and of the construction and operating of high-speed and heavy traction interurban electric railroads. After the lectures had been delivered, some of the members of the faculty of Lehigh University and others who had heard the lectures, together with other men whose financial and other interests arc essentially railroads, including practicing engineers, to whom the notes had been loaned, expressed the desire to have them published, for the reason, as they stated, that the treatment was novel and practical, and that no discussion of the subject, as presented in the lectures, existed in book form. I have, therefore, filled out the lecture notes, in some places adding matter thereto, and have rearranged the subjects so as to follow the order in which they would be taken up in the investigation and construction of an electric railway undertaking of the kind herein considered.
With the exception of a few large general maps, prepared for special cases, and some sets of railroad maps showing alignments and profiles, and a few sets of colored Progress Sheets, all of the full size original drawings and diagrams which I used while delivering the lectures have been reduced and reproduced for this volume and appear at their proper places in the following pages.
Some time prior to the delivery of these lectures a series of hearings was held by the Railroad Commissioners of New York State to consider the application of the New York and Port Chester Railroad Company for a charter, and during this hearing the practicability from both an engineering and commercial standpoint of interurban high-speed electric railways was fully demonstrated. Although the New York and Port Chester Railroad is not yet in operation, I used considerable of the engineering and other data placed in evidence at this hearing, as well as much other data worked up in developing and demonstrating the commercial and engineering details of of the New York and Port Chester Railroad in the Lehigh University lectures, and have also employed some of the same data in this book.
Neither the lectures, or this book, were or are given as a treatise or exhaustive treatment of the subject as a whole, or of the details as indicated in the chapter headings. The lectures were intended to " point the way," and embody some of the results of twelve years of practice and application. This book is presented with the same object in view.
I desire to express my thanks to Mr. C. 0. Mailloux, my associate, and to Mr. IL W. Blake, Editor of the Street Railway Journal, for the help they have given me in completing this book.
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