. The Street railway journal . watt-hours per car-mile, per cent Total miles of track, per cent increase Number regular cars operated, per cent increaseSchedule speed, per cent increase — — 1900 1901 1902 1903 00154 1904 TABLE J 1904 1903 1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 Passenger-car miles Total passengers Passengers per car-mile Ki
. The Street railway journal . watt-hours per car-mile, per cent Total miles of track, per cent increase Number regular cars operated, per cent increaseSchedule speed, per cent increase — — 1900 1901 1902 1903 00154 1904 TABLE J 1904 1903 1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 Passenger-car miles Total passengers Passengers per car-mile Kilowatt-hours, switchboard Kilowatt-hours per car-mile Total miles of track Number regular cars operated 4,420,,397 , 4,206,43516, 3-968,896, 4,104,48815,900,325 ,226, ,434,068 ,520, 3,546,56414,319,252 ,148, 3,278,,728 3-975,849, 3,063,705 12,304, 5,225,010 FIG. 6, -PASSENGERS AND KW-HOURs PER HALF TRIP,CAR NO. 480 plant equipment; the increased interest charge for line andpower plant. and consequent repairs; and additional power station and linerequirements. Too much care cannot be exercised in determining the gearratio for given service, for there can be no doubt that in manycases lack of power-station equipment and excessive motorrepairs can be traced to the use of wrong gear ratio. In thefirst place, cars should be selected of ample capacity for theservice requirements, and then motors should be selected witha rating only slightly greater than the service requires, andwith a gear ratio so designed that the schedule may be madewithout resorting to rapid acceleration on starting, and, as aconsequence, running the motors on low-efficiency points inorder to kill time. The additional tables contained in this re-port show the various conditions existing in Hartford, and maybe of general interest. AVERAGE SCHE
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