. Electric railway journal . he substantial trucks and theuse of the best available gasoline machinery. An inspection of Table I reveals immediately the char-acter of operation for which these cars are used. Thecars are from 55 ft. to 70 ft. long, carry 200 hp inengine equipment and run from I 22 miles to 204 miles aday at schedule speed, between and shortest distance between stops, regardless of cross-roads, is 4 miles, and the longest distance between stopsis 21 miles. The maximum grade is per cent. Thehighest operating and maintenance cost, cents permile, is sh
. Electric railway journal . he substantial trucks and theuse of the best available gasoline machinery. An inspection of Table I reveals immediately the char-acter of operation for which these cars are used. Thecars are from 55 ft. to 70 ft. long, carry 200 hp inengine equipment and run from I 22 miles to 204 miles aday at schedule speed, between and shortest distance between stops, regardless of cross-roads, is 4 miles, and the longest distance between stopsis 21 miles. The maximum grade is per cent. Thehighest operating and maintenance cost, cents permile, is shown by the system with one stop per 5 miles;the lowest operating and maintenance cost, centsper car mile, with a car of the same length making onestop about every 7 miles. With one exception, the gen-eral character of operation with these cars is to make oneround trip a day. On dividing the schedule speed intothe daily revenue mileage, it will be found that the carsrun only eight or nine hours a day, so that ample time. Typical Gas-Electric Motor Car for Use with TrailingLoads is available for layovers and inspection even with per-formances of 200 miles. DRAKE GAS-ELECTRIC CARSThe automotrice, or so-called Dracar, of the DrakeRailway Automotrice Company, was introduced in theUnited States in 1912 after its development and exten-sive installation abroad, notably on the Arad CsanadRailway, Hungary; Ostdeutsche Railway, Germany,and Great Central Railway, England. On the Arad line the service has grown from 67,017 train miles in 1903to 1,000,000 train miles in 1912. In 1912 the samerailway operated 952,143 train miles at an average costof cents per train mile, made up of the followingcomponents: gasoline, cents; oil and waste, ; helpers and sundries, cent; lighting, heating
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