. The Street railway journal . it is ap-parent that both the double and single-truckcar has its particular function to perform, andeach will for some time, at least, relnain factorson electric roads in the handling of variousclasses of traffic. It should be borne in mind that, for good andsufficient reasons, a number of electric roads donot provide a permanent equipment of trucksand motors for both summer and winter (openand closed) cars, but at indicated periods trans-fer such equipment from one class of cars to the other. This en-tails considerable expense, but presumably less than would be
. The Street railway journal . it is ap-parent that both the double and single-truckcar has its particular function to perform, andeach will for some time, at least, relnain factorson electric roads in the handling of variousclasses of traffic. It should be borne in mind that, for good andsufficient reasons, a number of electric roads donot provide a permanent equipment of trucksand motors for both summer and winter (openand closed) cars, but at indicated periods trans-fer such equipment from one class of cars to the other. This en-tails considerable expense, but presumably less than would be rep-resented by the investment, interest and deterioration on a largenumber of trucks and motors permanently installed on cars stored car in the summer), we would secure the following advantages:First—The shifting of truck and motor equipment would beavoided. Second—The roads would be efficiently operated with a lesstotal number of cars. Third—Only a limited room would be required for the storage of cnr^ not in
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