. The Street railway journal . re brought into the city in trains, and frequently threecars are hooked together. The sight of three big 60-ft. carsrunning through the narrow streets and into the business dis-trict of the city was one which excited the admiration of themanagers. The cars have type M controllers, with Westing-house straight air brakes and VanDorn couplers with , so that they make the right angle curves in the citywithout difficulty. In increasing the service for summer traf-fic, Mr. Bradley believes it is much better to operate cars intrains than to give half-hour head
. The Street railway journal . re brought into the city in trains, and frequently threecars are hooked together. The sight of three big 60-ft. carsrunning through the narrow streets and into the business dis-trict of the city was one which excited the admiration of themanagers. The cars have type M controllers, with Westing-house straight air brakes and VanDorn couplers with , so that they make the right angle curves in the citywithout difficulty. In increasing the service for summer traf-fic, Mr. Bradley believes it is much better to operate cars intrains than to give half-hour headway, and it was pretty gen-erally agreed that the cars on the half-hour usually run light,while those on the hour are crowded. People do not becomeaccustomed to the half-hour cars until they have been on for anumber of months, and then when they are taken off in thefall there are complaints, so it is better not to put them on atall. With train operation, the labor cost is, of course, reduced, 9000-HP STEAM TURBINE FOR BROOKLYN. 9000-HP STEAM TURBINE FOR WILLIAMSBURG STATION OF BROOKLYN RATID TRANSIT COMPANY although Mr. Bradley makes it a practice to have a conductoron each car. This not only increases the safety of operation,but insures getting all the fares. Bell ropes are not carriedthrough the trains, and while it takes a few seconds more toring two or three bells, there is not the liability of accident. The company is just preparing to take up the freight proposi-tion and it is building a passenger and freight terminal inColumbus. It is located in the wholesale district, and it willhave ample room for loading and unloading a number of this is completed the company will entirely abandon theuse of the interurban loop which traverses the heart of theshopping district and which is responsible for a great loss oftime and excessive wear and tear on equipment. For freightservice it is the intention to install a number of box-car trailers,which will resemble the interurb
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