Identifier: streetrailwayjo121896newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ning car, the street railroads, utilizing the results ofsteam railroad experience, have moved faster in departingfrom hor.se car practice. The present danger is that inthe great desire for improvements and in the haste withwhich new cars are usually designed and built, some of the -9« 3 o VI 1/ a—In this report are conibiued several others, also given separately in table..See text. h—Estimated on basis of $i.oo for each twenty passengers carried,c—Including outstanding stock of controlled companies. FIG. 1-A. salient points may be overlooked and cars built, which,while containing new features, may be poorly adapted to the work to be done. Conditions in St. Louis are perhaps such as to bring outmore strongly than elsewhere the relative advantages of thedifferent types of cars. A fierce, though entirely unnec-essary competition has caused the companies in many casesto disregard the actual cost of taking care of travel andhas forced them to seek for that style of car most preferred
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OCTOHKK, iSq6.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. VE 1)) passengers. The (jiicsticjii Which is the best type ofcar has here become a pre-eniiiient one, and the purposeof this article is to point out in a very general way therelative advantages and disadvantages of some of the dif-ferent styles of cars in use in St. Louis. The street railway bu.siness has a.ssumed such propor-tions and advanced .so far beyond its predecessor, the horseroad, that we now have interurban roads, suljurbanroads, pleasure roads and express roads, all in ad-dition to the old city .street railroad running overstreets which only a .short time ago were echoing to the merry jingle of the mule bell. These differentkinds of roads, hauling different cla.sses and num-bers of passengers, transporting them for difterentdistances, stopping at different intervals, and run-ning at different speeds, require for their u.se varioussorts of cars, but this di.scussion will be coirfined chieflyto those types of cars in use in regular city

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