. Electric railway journal . ng oversuburban extensions, ranged from per cent to cent. The accompanying curve sheet shows that thecosts per 1000 car have gone down as follows forlike-named months of 1908 and 1912: Surface—January,1908, 80 cents, and January, 1912, 61 cents; June, 1908, 61cents, and June, 1912, 35^-2 cents; elevated—January, 1908,$, and January, 1912, 56 cents; June, 1908, 88^ cents,and June, 1912, 49 cents. January 18, ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 03 In this chart the cost of the shoes from Jan. 1, 1908, toNov. 1, 1909, is figured at the actual pric
. Electric railway journal . ng oversuburban extensions, ranged from per cent to cent. The accompanying curve sheet shows that thecosts per 1000 car have gone down as follows forlike-named months of 1908 and 1912: Surface—January,1908, 80 cents, and January, 1912, 61 cents; June, 1908, 61cents, and June, 1912, 35^-2 cents; elevated—January, 1908,$, and January, 1912, 56 cents; June, 1908, 88^ cents,and June, 1912, 49 cents. January 18, ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 03 In this chart the cost of the shoes from Jan. 1, 1908, toNov. 1, 1909, is figured at the actual price paid, which variedwith different types of shoes. From Nov. 1, 1909, to Nov. , the cost was figured at a fixed invoice price per netton for all shoes. From Nov. 1, 1910, to date, the cost wasfigured in the same way, except that the contract price was$5 less per net ton than during the previous period. The costs shown upon the chart illustrated in this article,which are figured upon a mileage basis, and the net ton. B. R. T. Running Gear—Babbitting Two Bearings at One Time costs are also in direct relation to the set guaranteed car-mile costs. The contracts as carried along for the pastthree or four years upon the system, being of a somewhatco-operative nature, have resulted in bringing actual costsand guaranteed costs closer and in a further attainment ofthe benefit of savings thus made to the Brooklyn RapidTransit system in succeeding contracts. RULES ON CLEARANCES IN CALIFORNIA The Railroad Commission of California has issued rulesspecifying the character of construction required for cross-ings of railroads, street railroads, telegraph, telephone andother lines with each other and on the highways. When railroads, street railways or streets cross aboverailroads which transport standard freight cars, the mini-mum overhead clearance above the top of rails must be22 ft.; when the crossings are above street railways whichdo not transport standard freight cars, the min
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