. The street railway review . ^;riail?W;L liiUJll*;; ilii^aia 40-lb. rails with steel ties spaced 3 ft. Instead of a trolleywheel a sliding contact shoe is employed. These shoes wearvery rapidly and have to be renewed every few weeks. There. FIG. 3.—MOTOR CAR. trips daily. In Engineering, London, C. S. Du RichePreller gives an account of the traffic and receipts. Thefirst year after its opening the road carried 53,128 passen-gers, 106 tons of parcels, 2,488 tons of freight which, withthe mail service, aflforded a revenue of $5,390. There were21,600 train-miles run. The expense was divided as f
. The street railway review . ^;riail?W;L liiUJll*;; ilii^aia 40-lb. rails with steel ties spaced 3 ft. Instead of a trolleywheel a sliding contact shoe is employed. These shoes wearvery rapidly and have to be renewed every few weeks. There. FIG. 3.—MOTOR CAR. trips daily. In Engineering, London, C. S. Du RichePreller gives an account of the traffic and receipts. Thefirst year after its opening the road carried 53,128 passen-gers, 106 tons of parcels, 2,488 tons of freight which, withthe mail service, aflforded a revenue of $5,390. There were21,600 train-miles run. The expense was divided as fol-lows: Administration, .6 cent; maintenance, cents;traffic, cents; wages, cents, and general charges, , making a total of cents per train-mile. Therewas a profit in the operation of $1,475. which was a returnof 2 per cent on the money invested. ABOUT TOWER WAGONS. A most important part of the equipment of any road is thetower wagon. The time lost with makeshifts, to say nothingof the annoyance, inconvenience and danger, would in a fev,-months pay for a first-class wagon. The Trenton trolleywagon has been adopted by the leading roads of this and for-eign countries as the standard. Four years of hard usageh
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