. Electric railway journal . ound and thirty-sixinbound, making a total, for all classes of passengerservice, of 165 trains daily. The line has four tracks andthe operating difficulties, once the trains are clear ofthe city of Philadelphia, are by no means acute. AtBroad Street Station, however, a condition of conges-tion exists which has already established a limit to theamount of traffic that can be handled at the station contains sixteen platform tracks, but theseare led into a throat just outside of the station wheresix suburban routes converge, and this point sets alimit to t
. Electric railway journal . ound and thirty-sixinbound, making a total, for all classes of passengerservice, of 165 trains daily. The line has four tracks andthe operating difficulties, once the trains are clear ofthe city of Philadelphia, are by no means acute. AtBroad Street Station, however, a condition of conges-tion exists which has already established a limit to theamount of traffic that can be handled at the station contains sixteen platform tracks, but theseare led into a throat just outside of the station wheresix suburban routes converge, and this point sets alimit to the possible number of train movements in andout of the station and between the station and the stor-age yard just beyond the throat. The congestion atthis point is considerably more of a handicap to trainmovement than that caused by the limited number ofstation platform tracks. Suburban traffic over the main line west of Phila-delphia is now handled in three-car trains during the April 18, 1914.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 861. Philadelphia Electrification- -Curve on Experimental Section Equipped with a Special Type of Flexible Hanger Support-ing a Single Contact Wire ? non-rush hours and, with one exception, in five-car andsix-car trains during the rush hours. These smalltrains are hauled by passenger locomotives of almostthe largest type in use on the Pennsylvania System,and, in consequence, the great excess of tractive powerfurnished for each train becomes available for produc-ing rapid acceleration. The scheduled speed fromPhiladelphia to Paoli is 21 including nineteenstops, practically one stop per mile, and from this itwill be seen that, so far as quick service goes, the oper-ation by steam is exceptionally good. REASONS FOR ELECTRIFICATION At the present time the natural growth of traffic overthe system under the conditions outlined above hasreached the limit set by existing terminal facilities, andwithin the last few years the railroad company hasfaced the problem
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