. Electric railway journal . line was placed in serviceon Jan 10, 1918. It is believed to be the first throughcrosstown route to be operated with safety cars. Its noon; eleven between noon and , and eight tofive cars thereafter. The old headway of ten minuteshas been replaced by one of seven and one-half minutes(eleven cars), and the fifteen-minute headway by one often minutes (eight cars). In the late night hours theservice is tapered to a fifteen-minute headway (fivecars). In this way the traffic curve is met better thanwith the two headways used before. The twelfth out of the fifte
. Electric railway journal . line was placed in serviceon Jan 10, 1918. It is believed to be the first throughcrosstown route to be operated with safety cars. Its noon; eleven between noon and , and eight tofive cars thereafter. The old headway of ten minuteshas been replaced by one of seven and one-half minutes(eleven cars), and the fifteen-minute headway by one often minutes (eight cars). In the late night hours theservice is tapered to a fifteen-minute headway (fivecars). In this way the traffic curve is met better thanwith the two headways used before. The twelfth out of the fifteen safety cars first ordered 562 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 1-3 was used on the Woodlawn line, which operates over theintown end of Sulphur Springs line (suburban) andaccepts transfers from other city lines. The West Tampa-Ybor City line, which has been op-erating with nine safety cars since July 7 of this year,is also a crosstown route, 4 miles long. It has a six-minute headway during the rush hours. The headways. Air-Operated Transfer Register Used in Tamj for other periods are gradually being adjusted to meetthe changes in traffic. With these three classes of service 40 per cent ofTampas mileage is operated with safety cars. This Is Snappy Service! No Layovers! Only 28 per cent of the Michigan-Hyde Park line isdouble track. In practice this means that with elevencars and a seven and one-half-minute schedule, meets aremade every three and three-fourths minutes. C. W. Wet-terer, manager, is authority for the statement that themen have gotten down to their work with such pre-cision that slip-ups are a rarity. Important equipment factors in maintaining thisclean-cut operation are: The use of seven automatictrack switches (of Collins non-splashing type), ofUnited States Electric block signals (type K 2) and ofa Nachod headway recorder. The last is not confinedto any one line but is shifted about whenever a checkon layovers or detection of other irregularities is de-sir
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