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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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ital importance. The officials of the FortWorth company have made a study of its standardsingle-truck cars and believe that some of them canprofitably be equipped with the necessary automaticdevices and otherwise fully adapted to serve asauxiliaries to the new light-weight cars. They mayweigh nearly twice as much as the new cars, butthe cost of moving the excess weight and thegreater wear and tear on the roadbed during a fewhours of the day should be less than the addedfixed charges on entirely new lighter cars. It is by no means impossible that traffic studiesmay disclose some situations where double-truckcars may also be similarly adapted and used, there-by further preserving existing investment. Theproblem of developing a proper economic balancebetween new and old equipment by such means isone which will require careful, continued study inthe light of experience with the light-weight safetycar. It will be a different problem for each com-munity to which such studies are applicable.
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Summit Avenue Line—Two Safety Cars Passing on Turn Out The Designand Development of the Safety Gar It Was Suggested by the Success ofthe Jitney Bus—It Is Contributingto Progress in Car Standardization By C. O. Birney Stone & Webster, Boston, Mass. HE circumstances leading up to thedesign, development and introduc-tion of what has come to be knownas the safety car date from thewinter of 1914 and 1915, whichperiod witnessed the more or lessgeneral introduction of the jit-ney in Southern and Southwestern cities. Thewriter was at Fort Worth, Tex., for a time duringthat period and observed the startling effect onstreet railway operation produced by that competi-tive form of transportation. Notwithstanding thefact that the Northern Texas Traction Company,operating at Fort Worth, was well supplied withequipment, modern in every respect, and was givingthe best possible service, the popularity of the ser-vice offered by the jitney bus was such that thestreet cars were operated with gre

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