. The Street railway journal . STANDARD INTERURBAN CAR a training sufficient, it is believed, to enable them to gettheir cars into the station under ordinary conditions. The construction cars have already been referred to, andan illustration of one is given on the following page. The snow equipment is somewhat extensive, and isstrong enough to grapple with any storms which may visitMilwaukee; in fact, there have been some fine recordsmade in dealing with heavy storms which have blockedrailroad travel while the electric cars have been able to; un. It is found from the companys books that the en
. The Street railway journal . STANDARD INTERURBAN CAR a training sufficient, it is believed, to enable them to gettheir cars into the station under ordinary conditions. The construction cars have already been referred to, andan illustration of one is given on the following page. The snow equipment is somewhat extensive, and isstrong enough to grapple with any storms which may visitMilwaukee; in fact, there have been some fine recordsmade in dealing with heavy storms which have blockedrailroad travel while the electric cars have been able to; un. It is found from the companys books that the entirecost of maintaining the rolling stock in 1898 was $.0091per car mile, of which $.0022 was expended for car bodies,$.0017 on trucks, $.0038 on electrical equipments, and. INTERIOR OF STANDARD CAR $.0014 on superintendence, tools and miscellaneous ex-penditures. These are extremely low figures, in spite ofthe fact that the rolling stock has been kept*up in first-classcondition without the slightest depreciation. 350 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XV. No. 6. CAR SERVICE The average speed schedules of the city of Milwaukeeare somewhat high, being- from 8 to 9 miles per hour onan average, while on the suburban and interurban lines
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