. The Street railway journal . construc-tion, but is intended to show the way in which certain con-ditions were to be met in a certain case, together with the were recommended throughout for the reason that, as will beshown below, as good or better service could be given withthese smaller equipments than with the larger ones, by a verysimple departure from the accepted form of time-table in useon most railways. As a result the total investment per mileof track is very much lower, and the operating costs per car-mile are at the same time reduced. It is far from the writers intention to insinuat
. The Street railway journal . construc-tion, but is intended to show the way in which certain con-ditions were to be met in a certain case, together with the were recommended throughout for the reason that, as will beshown below, as good or better service could be given withthese smaller equipments than with the larger ones, by a verysimple departure from the accepted form of time-table in useon most railways. As a result the total investment per mileof track is very much lower, and the operating costs per car-mile are at the same time reduced. It is far from the writers intention to insinuate any tendencyon the part of the manufacturing companies to sell heavierequipments than are necessary. Numerous instances are onrecord where selling companies proposed less expensive equip-ments than those demanded by the purchaser, and their repu-tations in this respect are sufficient evidence to the present tendency towards extremely heavy equipments forcross-country roads is an outgrowth of elevated and similar. /8 24 sC -*-2 FIG. L—MAP OF PROPOSED INTERURBAN RAILWAY reasons which led up to the recommendations and plans thereinsubmitted. At the time the writer was invited by the promoters to ex-amine and report on the proposed road and its equipment, therehad been submitted by one of the large manufacturing com-panies a proposition to equip the road for high-speed servicewith four large motors of 125-hp per car, 8o-lb. track rail, andloo-lb. third rail, and correspondingly heavy sub-stations, dis-tributing system and power house. The promoters had, further-more, taken several trips to examine a lately opened high-speedrailway with an equipment similar to the one they proposed toinstall, and there seemed to be a fairly unanimous opinion thatthe new road should follow the same general lines. As I shallagain refer to this road we may designate it for our purpose asthe A, B & C Railway. The writers recommendations dif-fered in many respects from those proposed by
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