. Electric railway journal . s of the moderntype are placed in operation on the various proper-ties. Several of these cars are now under construc-tion in the St. Louis Car Companys plant, in ad-dition to the fifteen which have just been shipped toWichita from this plant. Other properties are pre-paring for their use. In due time, it is expectedthat many will be installed on the various I. T. 3 QJ Pi r/i o& h c City opulati umberngle-Oor Car umberan Ca: verageaily Ca:iles Ere City Ch ZCG si za Decatur, 111 • 37,000 13 7 2,710 Atchison, Kan . .18,000 12 4 3,351 2 10 1,522 Cairo, 11
. Electric railway journal . s of the moderntype are placed in operation on the various proper-ties. Several of these cars are now under construc-tion in the St. Louis Car Companys plant, in ad-dition to the fifteen which have just been shipped toWichita from this plant. Other properties are pre-paring for their use. In due time, it is expectedthat many will be installed on the various I. T. 3 QJ Pi r/i o& h c City opulati umberngle-Oor Car umberan Ca: verageaily Ca:iles Ere City Ch ZCG si za Decatur, 111 • 37,000 13 7 2,710 Atchison, Kan . .18,000 12 4 3,351 2 10 1,522 Cairo, 111 18,000 11 0 1,246 10,400 7 0 680 Jacksonville, 111. 16,000 7 3 814 40,000 6 32 3,100 Jefferson City, . 6 1 585 50,000 12 39 5,152 Wichita 65,000 18 36 5,874 Equipment ofthe Light-Weight, Safety Cars Showing How These Cars Have Been Equipped for One-ManOperation by Using Special Automatic Air-Brake, Doorand Step Control, and Light-Weight Motors, Controllers,Trucks and Miscellaneous Apparatus of New Design. T is the purpose in the followingpages to describe the equipmentthat has been developed particu-larly to meet the requirements ofone-man safety car operation. Inthe design of this equipmentsafety, lightness and automaticoperation were the three objectives. Since the re-duction of the car crew from two men to one wouldnaturally reduce the schedule speed if the equipmentwas not changed, it was essential to produce a carwhose automatic features would be so completethat its progress over the line would not be delayedby one-man operation. From the railways stand-point it was also desirable to relieve the operatorfrom physical and mental strain as far as has been done by making the operating equip-ment so convenient and efficient that the operatorsmovements have been reduced to a minimum, withthe result that the added conductors duties have notbeen burdensome to the operator. The economy ofusing a light-weight car has already been so fully discussed else
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