. The Street railway journal . as summoned to the generalmanagers office and thus accosted byits genial occupant: We see youcan yank an empty train out of theswitch at Fourteenth Street andjump it up to Fiftieth Street in timeto get out of the way of the others,but how about a train with peoplehanging on to the straps? In re-ply the writer stated his willing-ness to submit to any tests thought it fair to impose under the circumstances,and it was agreed that a flat-car train, loaded with rail-road iron to the weight of an ordinary loaded four-car train,should be placed at the disposal
. The Street railway journal . as summoned to the generalmanagers office and thus accosted byits genial occupant: We see youcan yank an empty train out of theswitch at Fourteenth Street andjump it up to Fiftieth Street in timeto get out of the way of the others,but how about a train with peoplehanging on to the straps? In re-ply the writer stated his willing-ness to submit to any tests thought it fair to impose under the circumstances,and it was agreed that a flat-car train, loaded with rail-road iron to the weight of an ordinary loaded four-car train,should be placed at the disposal of the Daft Company for day-light running to demonstrate the ability of the motor in com-mercial work. This being done, during one endless day it wastowed up and down the entire section, between the steamtrains, while the writer stood at the controller with bis hairgrowing grayer at the end of every trip. Those who know thedifference between a live train filled with alert swaying 532 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV. No. FIG. TRAINS PASSING ON BALTIMORE ROAD cars with motors on the platform, as hasbeen stated several times, but always, with onesingle exception, where it has been the ruleto place them ever since. The exception wasone open car for the Los Angeles road, inwhich case the motor was placed in the centerin a compartment which required the sacrificeof two seats for that purpose. Two cars forIthaca, five for Mansfield, Ohio, and twentyfor Asbury Park were practically of the samedesign—that is, motors underneath the cars,cut-steel pinions and cut cast-iron gears. The Asbury Park road was opened in Sep-tember, 1887, and the equipment of twenty-cars was required to meet the heavy fluctua-tions of traffic incident to a crowded summer bodies, and on easy springs, and a dead one madeup of almost springless flat cars loaded with immovablematerial, will understand the predicament. That the colonelwas having his little joke was attested by the two steam loco-motives hel
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