REMARKS OF SOME OFFICIALS WHO HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE
THE EDWARDS RAIL CAR IN ACTUAL OPERATION:
Mr. John W. Smith, President, Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad
“From our experience this year, the Edwards Rail Car is exactly what today’s excursion rail travelers are looking for.”
Mr. E.A. Frink, Principal Asst. Eng., Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., Norfolk, VA
“I was very much pleased with the trip I made recently on one of your motor
cars with trailer from Sanford to Aberdeen and return. It seemed to me the
car performed excellently and was suitable for traffic with in its capacity.”
M. Allarino, General Superintendent, Ferrocarril Nacional De Chiriqui
“It is with great pleasure I inform you that the first car of the three which
you are building for us has been received and a test was made on our Boquet
run which as you know is our most difficult section, and has a grade of 5%
for a distance of 25 kilometers. This test was carried out with astonishing
success being the first motor car to go up that grade at a speed of 25 miles
per hour and without over heating of the engine. Let me congratulate you
for this master piece, as I am sure no other car built can ever give such
a performance”.
Mr. J.J. Sullivan, Supt. Of Machinery, The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.,
“We are very much pleased with the performance of your gasoline railway car
and wish to say this is the most practical car of this type for short line
and branch line railroad service we have seen.”
Mr. J. L. Hawley, General Manager, Rockingham Railroad, Rockingham, N.C.
“The B.& O. car I saw at Hamlet is apparently very complete and should
prove very efficient in the handling of short line traffic. You have a very
substantial car, one that compares favorably with the other gasoline cars
now on the market.”
Mr. M. C. Woods, President, Augusta Northern Railway, Marion, S.C. Our General Manager, Mr. J.W.
Chadwick and I gave your car a careful inspection this spring, with particular
attention to the way it would take curves and grades. In so far as we could
see, the test was satisfactory in all particulars. I am sure you are developing
your proposition along the right lines and that you have in hand a solution
of one of the short haul troubles.
Mr. C. B. Young, Gen. Mech, Eng., Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago, Ill.
“The type of car you are producing has riding qualities much to be preferred
even on the fairly indifferent track of the Atlantic & Western Railroad
to those of other cars on standard main line tracks highly maintained.”
Mr. C. B. Smith, Mech. Engineer, Boston and Main R.R., Boston, Mass.
“I have already had the opportunity to ride on your two-car train on two
consecutive days a few months ago and was very much pleased with the operation,
and acceleration features and the general ease with which the car is handled”.
Our General Manager, Mr. J.W.
Chadwick and I gave your car a careful inspection this spring, with particular
attention to the way it would take curves and grades. In so far as we could
see, the test was satisfactory in all particulars. I am sure you are developing
your proposition along the right lines and that you have in hand a solution
of one of the short haul troubles.