The highest speed ever attained on a railway-131 miles an hour - was made by an electric locomotive in 1903.
-Wilmington Morning Star.
the AGV went 370-something
This may have been that experimental German electrification that Juniata filled us in on with a power car coach with horizonatally tapered ends, and three side pantographs contacting three wires for a three-phase ac electrification/ A model of the equipment can be seen at the Sprague building, Shore Line Trolley Museum, River Street East Haven. The beautiful about half-scale model once belonged to Frank J. Sprague.
Excerpt from Electrical Review, June 10, 1905
LECTURE AT THE NEW YORK ELECTRICAL SOCIETY.
The 251st meeting of the New York Electrical Society was held May 24. Mr. Charles A. Mudge, formerly chief engineer of the railway department of the Allgemeine Electricitats Gesellschaft, Berlin, who took part in the tests on the famous Berlin-Zossen road, lectured on “High-Speed, Long-Distance Electric Traction.” Mr. Mudge stated briefly the conditions existing in high-speed traction about six years ago, when the plans for these extraordinary experiments were formulated by Messrs. Ratherau and Schweiger. Continuing, he said, in part:
As is generally known, these tests were made under the direction of a company organized for the special purpose, and known as the “Studiengesellschaft für Elektrischc Schnellbahnen.”
The objects of the tests were to make a study of many of the heretofore incompletely, and in some cases, wholly unknown factors entering into electric traction at speeds never before attempted, such as collecting current at high voltages, traction and air resistances, best design of trolleys, motors, transformers, brake gears and trucks, the power required to run at high speeds, the details entering into the construction of the permanent way, and the collection of other data in order to calculate costs of future installations.
The track selected for the experiments parallels the main line running south from Berlin toward Dresden, and is used by the Ministry of War for giving instruction to the railway corps of the army. The car b
And Death Valley Scotty was nowhere around!
The model on display at the Sprague Building is of the Siemans and Halsk car. Colors are deep purple-brown and cream.
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No, Death Valley Scotty wasn’t around, but I believe Black Forest Fritzie was on board!
Soryy, couldn’t resist!