Identifier:streetrailwayj281906newy (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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last year.The freights also operate in trains, but trailers are used in thisservice. The company has three motor express cars, which arefitted with the same electrical equipment as the passenger cars.There are also two trailers which were rebuilt from mail carspurchased from a steam road. The doors were made largerand the cars were fitted with automatic air brakes. They havea somewhat larger capacity than the motor cars. There aretwo regular trips a day in the freight service over each division,and usually a trailer is used on one of these trips. In comput-ing the operating expenses of freight cars, it has been found that aloaded freight, with trailer, consumes 2 kw-hours per car-milemore than the passenger cars. Before the freight service wasstarted, it was found that the consumption for passenger cars overa period of a year was 3.1 kw-hours per car-mile in summerand 3.5 kw-hours per car-mile in winter, the large power con-sumption in winter being due to the presence of snow and the
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GROUND-FLOOR PLAN, TERMINAL AT COLUMBUS, SCIOTO VALLEY Plate XVII Plate XVIII

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