. Electric railway journal . way. A three- car passenger train will pull out of the terminal witha light American-type engine, and a switcher will coupleon as soon as the train gets into the yard. These twolocomotives then labor up the grade with three cars! This instance is cited to disclose the absurdity ofoverloading a set of steam rails and underloading aparallel set of electric rails. Even if this particularsteam road is not overloaded, it is obviously using equip-ment extravagantly. The passenger business could behandled to better advantage by the interurban railway,because the steam lin
. Electric railway journal . way. A three- car passenger train will pull out of the terminal witha light American-type engine, and a switcher will coupleon as soon as the train gets into the yard. These twolocomotives then labor up the grade with three cars! This instance is cited to disclose the absurdity ofoverloading a set of steam rails and underloading aparallel set of electric rails. Even if this particularsteam road is not overloaded, it is obviously using equip-ment extravagantly. The passenger business could behandled to better advantage by the interurban railway,because the steam line is primarily designed for freight,and it could be electrified to advantage to improve itsoperation in that field. Cleveland Has Possibilities For some years Cleveland has had what is really aninterurban package-express service. Although thismeets a certain need, it does not fulfill the demands ofthe shippers in Cleveland and the surrounding terri-tories. Shippers who have been interested in interur-ban freight haulage from. INTERURBAN FREIGHT MOTOR CAR, NORTHERN OHIOTRACTION & LIGHT COMPANY Cleveland to local pointsfor nearly fifteen yearsassert that they have beenunable to secure whatthey consider an advan-tageous arrangement forhandling freight out ofCleveland on the inter-urban railways. Because of this absenceof electric freight,shippers, especially job-bing houses, find them-selves restricted in deal-ing with the small townsnear Cleveland. So in-terested ivere these ship-pers in electric freighthaulage that six yearsthey helped to secure per-mits for the electric railways to haul freight trains of upto three cars through the streets of Cleveland. The only line out of Cleveland with extensive freightoperation is the Cleveland, Southwestern & ColumbusRailway. The Northern Ohio Traction & Light Com-pany, Akron, however, expects shortly to have extensivefreight service over its lines into Cleveland. The present electric railway freight movement in andout of Cleveland
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