. The Street railway journal . vel. A car of this pattern would,no doubt, have had such strengthin the side that it would have beenlifted from the track bodily by sucha blow and in this way, by yieldingto the blow struck by the steamroller, would have escaped injuries and would haveprotected its passengers to muchbetter advantage. While we do not build carswith accidents in view, yet .sinceaccidents will occur it is not un-reasonable to consider them, es-pecially as in providing we also obtain a strengthwhich is useful in enabling the carto wear longer. Cars of this g
. The Street railway journal . vel. A car of this pattern would,no doubt, have had such strengthin the side that it would have beenlifted from the track bodily by sucha blow and in this way, by yieldingto the blow struck by the steamroller, would have escaped injuries and would haveprotected its passengers to muchbetter advantage. While we do not build carswith accidents in view, yet .sinceaccidents will occur it is not un-reasonable to consider them, es-pecially as in providing we also obtain a strengthwhich is useful in enabling the carto wear longer. Cars of this gen-eral type do not give a sufficient strength to the posts anddo not have proper stiffness to .safely carry the roof. Theopen cars with a partition at the ends are very muchstronger, carry their roofs with less whipping and inaccidents have at least one bench which is strongenough to make .some show of resistance. No fault inthis case can be reasonably found with the construc-tion, but the design is one which is certainly not. FIG. 2.—RESULTS OF A COLLISION. altogether desirable, and it is gratifying to know that thepublic demands are growing in the direction of a differentstyle of car. An electric car on the Lorain-Elyria Electric Railway,of Lorain, O., recently made a record of a mile in one min-ute and thirty-five seconds. Junk, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 357 LETTERS AND HINTS FROM PRACTICAL MEN. ExprchS Service in Brooklyn. Thk Brooklyn Hkiohts Railroad Company. Brooklyn, N. Y., Apr. 23, Strkkt Railway Journal: This company, after having been urged l)y a greatmany different persons in the city, has arranged to put ineffect an express service for the carriage of liigh class ex-press matter in a manner similar to our carriage of ITnitedStates mail and which we have been doing in special post-office cars constructed for that purpose since last fall. Brooklyn always has been materially hampered by thedilatory and expensive methods in vogue for the distribu-t
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