. The Street railway journal . uit conditions. Cars have been operated at high speeds with these devices,and they have never failed to work satisfactorily. Several testsat 50 miles per hour were made upon Ohio interurban lines. 422 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. n. NEW CARS FOR TOLEDO RAILWAY LINE MATERL/^L The long rear platform with dividing rail, popularly knownas the Detroit platform, is coming into more extended use inmany of the Western cities where the arrangement of terminalsis such that the cars can be run as single coders. One of thelatest cities to adopt this type of car is t
. The Street railway journal . uit conditions. Cars have been operated at high speeds with these devices,and they have never failed to work satisfactorily. Several testsat 50 miles per hour were made upon Ohio interurban lines. 422 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. n. NEW CARS FOR TOLEDO RAILWAY LINE MATERL/^L The long rear platform with dividing rail, popularly knownas the Detroit platform, is coming into more extended use inmany of the Western cities where the arrangement of terminalsis such that the cars can be run as single coders. One of thelatest cities to adopt this type of car is the Toledo Railways &Light Company, of Toledo, one of whose cars is illustrated inthe accompanying engraving. The view shown was taken atthe works of the Kuhlman Car Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, Results of tests conducted by Professor Samuel Sheldon, ofBrooklyn Polytechnic Institute, upon several forms of overheadline material manufactured by the Electrose ManufacturingCompany, of Brooklyn, have been published. They are not.
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