Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1912 — First Storage Battery Train. [ARTICLE]

First Storage Battery Train.

'The first railroad' train ever operated with storage batteries supplying tbe motive power made a run between a. railroad station in New York and the Long Island railroad terminal at Long Beach, N. Y. The trip of about 27. miles took 45 minutes, approximately the same time made by trains run daily b$ third rail electricity.