Erie's New Electric Road
This is a 1907 article about the electrification of the Erie Railroad's Mount Morris Branch. Click on the links below to see a PDF image of the original article. The article begins:
The opening of the new electric road on the Rochester Division of the Erie Railroad recently marked another achievement of American ingenuity in electrical railway science. For the first time a steam railway is using a single-phase alternating motor for moving trains, with power coming from Niagara Falls, seventy miles away.
References
- New York Times. April 21, 1907. Click here for a link to the article on the New York Time web site. Click here for a copy from this web site.
