Identifier: electricrailway531919newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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entingbunching of cars. Frequently it will be found thatthere are enough cars on the various lines if they areproperly distributed. Division superintendents andsupervisors can perform a very useful duty in re-porting inadequacy of service or too liberal layover timeat terminals, and the operating executive should neverlet them lose sight of the fact that each car must earnits proportion of revenue and that it cannot do this un-less it holds its place on a well-considered schedule. Acar on the street (when traffic awaits it) is worth adozen in the depot or at lay-over points. A rollingstone gathers no moss was not written of the electriccar. 1134 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. 24 New York Centrals Latest Motor Cars For Suburban Service on Its Electrified Zone the New York Central Railroad Has JustPlaced in Operation a Number of 59-Ft. Multiple-Unit Passenger Cars ThatDiffer From the Companys Previous Equipments in Many Respects,Both in Structural Details and Electrical Equipment
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COMPLETELY EQUIPPED CAR READY FOR SERVICE AS A REPRESENTATION of fifteen years experi-ZA ence with a uniformly successful steam railroadX A. electrification, the New York Centrals latestmotor cars, just placed in service, attain no ordinarydegree of importance. The design, which has beenworked out by the engineers of the New York CentralRailroad, follows steam railroad standards in so faras the electrical equipment will permit. This is to beexpected in view of the fact that the cars are operatedon one of the most important of American suburbanelectrifications, the construction having been based uponthe possibility of operation with standard steel passen-ger coaches as trailers as well as that of operation intrains behind steam locomotives in case of movementsbeyond the limits of the electric zone. To that end thecross-section dimensions and the external appearancepractically coincide with the roads rolling equipmentfor trunk-line service. For the new cars trucks, however, there exist

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