. Electric railway journal . ose to run 5-ton trucks with two5-ton trailers each, totaling 15 tons, at a schedule speedof 10 , or six hours for the 60-mile run. Electricrailway freight trains carrying 50 to 150 tons make thesame run in three hours! Longer runs than this wouldput the motor trucks at a still greater disadvantagesince they cannot make reasonable speed at night with than four men, so that the haul per man was 250 to 375tons per trip. The average speed ranged from 15 to Now, had this job been assigned to motor trucks,each driver would not have averaged better than 10
. Electric railway journal . ose to run 5-ton trucks with two5-ton trailers each, totaling 15 tons, at a schedule speedof 10 , or six hours for the 60-mile run. Electricrailway freight trains carrying 50 to 150 tons make thesame run in three hours! Longer runs than this wouldput the motor trucks at a still greater disadvantagesince they cannot make reasonable speed at night with than four men, so that the haul per man was 250 to 375tons per trip. The average speed ranged from 15 to Now, had this job been assigned to motor trucks,each driver would not have averaged better than 10 tonsper trip, assuming that he could take such an unusuallybig load. Therefore, to haul 500,000 tons fully 50,000men-trips would have been necessary compared with166G men-trips (assuming 300 tons per man) on theelectric railway. In other words, if the motor truckscould have equalled the speed of the electric railway,they would still have required thirty times the man-power! It follows that there could be no greater waste of. Fig. 1—Front end of out and inbound freight housesFig. 2—House tracks—five of these between warehousesFig. 3—House tracks—average of 100 cars per day loaded fromthese Fig. 4—Inbound freight house Fig. 5—Outbound freight house Fig. 6—Team side outbound freight house Fig. 7—Team and storage yard Fig. 8—Loading carload freight DETROIT UNITED RAILWAY—EAST SIDE FREIGHT TERMINAL any degree of safety to themselves or others. On theother hand, a car on rails runs as fast at night as it doesin the day. Electric Railway Accomplishment On a12-Mile Haul The economic fallacy of the motor truck even for soshort a haul as 12 miles can be realized from the wonder-ful achievement of the Inter-Urban Railway, DesMoines, in completely furnishing Camp Dodge by haul-ing some 10,000 standard steam road cars, totaling500,000 tons of freight, in 1000 to 1500-ton trains oftwenty to thirty cars each, and requiring not more man-power than the unrestricted use of
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