. The Street railway journal . acesthe track from below, leaving a free space of only 7 mm, so that the wheel cannot jump off. If, however, there shouldbe an obstruction on the track, even if only the head of arivet, there is some doubt as to the practical value of thisderailment argument. Only about km of the originally planned total of 13km of line is in operation, and up to date, a year and a halfafter the line was opened, only single motor cars, weighingloaded 16 tons, have been run. The speed of the cars isonly 20 km to 22 km, although the inventors claim thatwith this system greater
. The Street railway journal . acesthe track from below, leaving a free space of only 7 mm, so that the wheel cannot jump off. If, however, there shouldbe an obstruction on the track, even if only the head of arivet, there is some doubt as to the practical value of thisderailment argument. Only about km of the originally planned total of 13km of line is in operation, and up to date, a year and a halfafter the line was opened, only single motor cars, weighingloaded 16 tons, have been run. The speed of the cars isonly 20 km to 22 km, although the inventors claim thatwith this system greater speed can be secured than by anyother method on account of the ease with which curves canbe traversed. The writer doubts this, especially as it hasnot been borne out by one and a half years operation. The road follows for the greater part the course of theWupper River, which is from 15 m to 40 m in width, andalong its shores the pillars of the elevated structure are numerous curves have nearly all a radius of 90 m, but. limmattal strassenbahn there is one of 30 m and one of only 8 m. The switchingconstruction is highly interesting, but is not consideredsafe by the authorities, so that only empty cars are allowedto use it. For this reason there is no turnout on the linealthough one would have been desirable. In view of theseconditions no branch lines are possible. The writer does not believe that any more such roadswill be permitted within cities, because pedestrians wouldnot be protected from water and oil dripping from the sys-tem, no part of which is water-tight. The ordinary elevatedconstruction is certainly more desirable and less noisy. Itmay be more expensive, but it is much more efficient. Thesuspended railway has the further disadvantage that trainscannot easily be run from it into an underground road, asmight be desirable within city limits. THE WANNSEE ROAD This interesting railway has also been described in theStreet Railway Journal of August, 1899, but itcom
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