. Electric railway journal . stadvances in the art but it has also set up new standardsand devised new practices which will accrue to thebenefit of other electric railway operators. Character of Forthcoming Service To appreciate the reason for electing to use the tap-field motor in the forthcoming service it is well to point ft. and the average 7230 ft. The length of this runwill be 43,380 ft. On a typical combined express and local run like thatfrom Forty-eighth Street, New York, to Coney Islandvia a 7000-ft. tunnel and the Brighton Beach line theshortest distance between stations will be 126
. Electric railway journal . stadvances in the art but it has also set up new standardsand devised new practices which will accrue to thebenefit of other electric railway operators. Character of Forthcoming Service To appreciate the reason for electing to use the tap-field motor in the forthcoming service it is well to point ft. and the average 7230 ft. The length of this runwill be 43,380 ft. On a typical combined express and local run like thatfrom Forty-eighth Street, New York, to Coney Islandvia a 7000-ft. tunnel and the Brighton Beach line theshortest distance between stations will be 1263 ft.,the longest, 9870 ft. and the average 4573 ft. Thelength of the run will be 82,327 ft. In general the localruns will be longer but the express runs shorter than onthe present rapid transit lines of New York. It was obvious that the tap-field motor was ideal forrunning conditions of the character described, inas-much as such a motor could be run on full field inlocal service and on tapped field in express service. Self-. NEW YORK MUNICIPAL CAR—THE FIRST EIGHT-CAR TRAIN READY FOR A TRIAL RUN ON THE NEW SEA BEACH LINE out that three distinct services—local, express and acombination or these two—are contemplated. Forpurely local runs the schedule speed will be 15 an average station stop of 20 seconds, and forpurely express service the speed will be 25 withan average stop of 30 seconds. On a typical local run like that of Fifty-ninth Street,New York, to Coney Island, by way of the ManhattanBridge and Brighton Beach line, the shortest distancebetween stations will be 1100 ft., the longest 6220 ft.,exclusive of the Manhattan Bridge, and the average2430 ft. The length of this run will be 68,090 the 10,560 ft. of the Manhattan Bridge. On a typical express run like that from Forty-eighthStreet, New York, to Sheepshead Bay, the shortest dis-tance between stations will be 3930 ft., the longest, 9870 *See New York Municipal Car articles on Design, Bodya
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