. Electric railway journal . the car equipment. As these studies have to do only with cars, we shallnot dwell further on the subjects of short-routing andcar storage other, than to call attention in passing tothe fact that an increased length of car means a largerhouse, and a heavier car, a stronger and more expensivebuilding construction. When we pass to the question of the increase in sched-ule speed, however, we find that the car itself becomes March 16, 1918 Electric Railway Journal 497 a vital factor in many ways. Much attention has re-cently been given to the so-called skip-stop system,
. Electric railway journal . the car equipment. As these studies have to do only with cars, we shallnot dwell further on the subjects of short-routing andcar storage other, than to call attention in passing tothe fact that an increased length of car means a largerhouse, and a heavier car, a stronger and more expensivebuilding construction. When we pass to the question of the increase in sched-ule speed, however, we find that the car itself becomes March 16, 1918 Electric Railway Journal 497 a vital factor in many ways. Much attention has re-cently been given to the so-called skip-stop system, andspecial stress has been laid on the increased schedulespeed and the saving in power through the reductionin the number of stops and starts. It is evident that ifthe number of stops is reduced more people must behandled per stop and consequently platform and farecollection arrangements must be adopted to take care ofthe increased number of passengers without in addition to this feature there enters one which. Make it as easy as possible for passengers toboard and alight has not received so much consideration, namely, thefact that in low-speed operation such as city service,the cost of car maintenance is very largely affected bythe number of stops per mile. The cost of maintenance of car equipment on a well-managed road will run from 2 to 2H cents per car-mile. Taking an average of say eight stops per milethis would amount to a maintenance cost of aboutcent per stop. It cannot be claimed, of course, that thecost of maintenance increases or decreases in exact pro-portion to the number of stops, but on the other handit is quite clear that if a car needed to make but onestart during its whole trip, the wear and tear on theequipment would be tremendously less than under theactual conditions, where many stops per mile have to bemade. Trolley poles, controllers, motors, doors, brakes,wheels and so on ad infinitum would bear eloquent tes-timony to the difference in ope
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