. Electric railway journal . ated on elevatedground, through the business section to another resi-dential section, which also is on elevated land at theother side of the city. The grades range from 5 percent to per cent, and the average speed is , with an average number of stops per trip ofthirty-three in a run miles long. The heaviest traffic point on each line is at its center,which is the business district of the city, and thegreater portion of each line is double-tracked, wyes orloops being provided at either end. Of the twenty-fivecars purchased to serve the two lines,
. Electric railway journal . ated on elevatedground, through the business section to another resi-dential section, which also is on elevated land at theother side of the city. The grades range from 5 percent to per cent, and the average speed is , with an average number of stops per trip ofthirty-three in a run miles long. The heaviest traffic point on each line is at its center,which is the business district of the city, and thegreater portion of each line is double-tracked, wyes orloops being provided at either end. Of the twenty-fivecars purchased to serve the two lines, one is normallyheld in the carhouse for emergency use. The new cars consume approximately 30 per cent lesspower than those originally in use. With the new cars,too, the rate of acceleration has been increased to , which increases the time of free equipment of each of the new cars consists of four25-hp. Westinghouse Wee motors, with single-end con-trol; whereas the equipment of the old cars consists of. INTERIOR VIEW OF FRONT-ENTRANCE CENTER-EXIT CAR FORSYRACUSE four 40-hp. motors. The new cars allow 18 in. per pas-senger and seat forty-eight, against forty-four for theother cars, giving a weight per seated passenger forthe new cars of 600 lb., against 900 lb. for the advantages of the new body design are reported to be that conflict of outgoing and incoming streams,of passengers is impossible and that, because of thearrangement of the doors, the time consumed in farecollection is greatly reduced. Passengers enter by wayof the front doors, which are double, passing into thecar in a double stream, thus reducing by one-half thetime that ordinarily would be taken in loading a single-
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