. The Street railway journal . established, and all of the elevatedand subway lines in this country and Europe, which have been in-stalled within the past five years, have adopted some type of mul-tiple unit control, and the earlier roads which adopted the singlemotor cars are already replacing them by multiple unit equipments. Although multiple unit control apparatus found its first appli-cation on elevated railways for passenger service, it is now coming 566 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. 14. into use on interurban roads, and it may be of interest to considerits claims in this more
. The Street railway journal . established, and all of the elevatedand subway lines in this country and Europe, which have been in-stalled within the past five years, have adopted some type of mul-tiple unit control, and the earlier roads which adopted the singlemotor cars are already replacing them by multiple unit equipments. Although multiple unit control apparatus found its first appli-cation on elevated railways for passenger service, it is now coming 566 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. 14. into use on interurban roads, and it may be of interest to considerits claims in this more extended field. The necessity for rapid ac-celeration on interurban roads is not as great as on elevated orsubway roads, where the station distances are shorter, and thetraffic demands on many interurban road may be supplied at firstby single motor cars, but as the traffic increases it may becomedesirable to run trains of two or more cars. Unusual local con-ditions, such as fairs and ball games, also frequently make it desir-. SPRAGUE-GENERAL ELECTRIC REVERSER D. B. 26 able to run a number of cars together in a train. If the motivepower equipment is designed for propelling a single car, the addi-tion of trailer cars is sometimes impossible, if the road has steepgrades, and it is always unsatisfactory, for it results in overloaded
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