Identifier: streetrailwayjo281906newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ONE OF THE .500-KW, D. C. TURBO-GENERATORS IN POWERSTATION NO. 2 the same. This indicates that the brakes do not release well,and also indicates a continuous friction which consumesenergy that should be more usefully applied to the operationof the equipment. SCHEDULES AND FARES At present a half-hour schedule is given on the WestChester line between West Chester and Sixty-Third Street. CONSTRUCTION CAR, PHILADELPHIA S.TRACTION COMPANY WEST CHESTER
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STANDARD INTERURBAN CAR WITH STEEL UNDERFRAME Ol-& WEST CHESTER TRACTION COMPANY A 15-minute schedule is given on the Ardmore line fromSixty-Third Street to Ardmore. A 15-minute schedule is givenon the Clifton line from Sixty-Third Street to Collindale. Theservice is given with single-car units. As soon as the elevatedtrains are placed in operation it is proposed to give thesesame schedules, but it is believed that at certain hours of theday, at least, it will be necessary to run two and three-car The fares are based on the zone system, and a separate 5-cent fare is collected from each passenger at each zone. For watching the efficiency of the schedules, the record,shown on the opposite page, is kept. On this is entered thenumber of passengers carried on each trip, in each fare zone,and as the seating capacity of the cars is known, it becomesa simple matter to determine if the cars are properly servingthe travel at each hour of the day.In this sheet the number of pas-sengers is en

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