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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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re system is very simple, and it takes only a.few minutes to change the armatures on both machines,and the entire process can I e carried on by one man andhelper. Municipal Regulations in Germany An instance of the minuteness of the German municipalregulations in regard to street railways is shown by a re-cent ruling of the Police Department, thai it is dangerousfor a conductor to pass along the steps of open horse carswhich have transverse seats. The railway company hastherefore been obliged to cut a passage through the seatsand end partitions of some cars that it has been operating.As the width of the cars in Germany is restricted to 2 me-ters (6 ft. 6f ins.) outside, this ruling reduces the carryingcapacity 25 per cent, so tht a six-bench car will seat buteighteen people. Standing inside is prohibited on all Ger-man roads, but a limited number may stand on the plat-forms; this limit, however, which is plainly posted, isstrictly enforced. 368 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XV. No. 6.
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JUNE, 1599. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE STREET RAILWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY Main Office :NEW YORK, Beard Building, 120 Liberty Street. This is so well recognized as to be almost a truism, but thebest of care in timing cars at the termini of lines or atwidely distant points on long distance lines does not pre-vent the motorman from departing from his schedulesometimes, especially if no particular system of checkingthis feature is adopted. It would not seem a difficult thingto do to establish frequent points along the line of a rail-way, such as by numbering certain poles, and the em-ployee would then know whether he were behind or aheadof his schedule by comparing the time at which he passedthese poles, as indicated by a watch carried on the dash,with the proper moment as given in his time card. In-spectors could be instructed to check up the crew, if neces-sary, by boarding the cars at different points and compar-ing the attained time with the schedule. Branch Offices : Chicago Monadnock B

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