. The street railway review . ment with ontside companies, since theadditional business brought into the city more than compensatesfor any trouble arising from handling the suburban cars. The early traffic arrangements were comparatively simple agree-ments, generally setting forth the compensation required by thecity company for permitting the outside cars to run over its tracks,an agreement as to the crews who were to handle the cars, an under-standing as to responsibility in cases of accidents, and other similarmatters of detail. But it has been found that the rapid developmentof the interur
. The street railway review . ment with ontside companies, since theadditional business brought into the city more than compensatesfor any trouble arising from handling the suburban cars. The early traffic arrangements were comparatively simple agree-ments, generally setting forth the compensation required by thecity company for permitting the outside cars to run over its tracks,an agreement as to the crews who were to handle the cars, an under-standing as to responsibility in cases of accidents, and other similarmatters of detail. But it has been found that the rapid developmentof the interurban roads is presenting problems to the city com-panies which were never thought of in the earlier days. The ques-tion of weight, the question of wheels, the question of voltage, thequestion of type of cars, the question of mail, freight and express,and many other matters, present difficulties to the managements ofboth the city and suburban lines which arc becoming more andmore difficult to adjust to the satisfaction of I. .\. McCiJKMACK. The question of unusual weights of cars is without doubt themost difficult one with which we are obliged to contend at the pres-ent time. The city tracks of five years ago were designed for sin-gle truck cars, weighing from 8,000 to 14,000 lb. Today our small-er city cars weigh from 16,000 to lb., while the heavier doubletruck cars weigh from 24,000 to 30,000 lb. These are bad enoughon tracks designed for the lighter cars, but the effects of the latestinterurban cars weighing from 35,000 tO 60,000 lb., on rail jointsand special work is doubtless becoming fully appreciated by manyof those present. Coincident with the increase in the weight of cars comes an in-crease in wheel dimensions and this increase brings with it trou-bles which are almost as expensive as those caused by excessiveweights. Our city wheels have a flange % in. deep as against oneof I in. for the interurbans. The city wheel face is 2% in. asagainst 2% in., and th
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