Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ents are under contract by the Westing-house company; of these, the motors vary in rating from 50 to 150h. p. and the aggregate horsepower reaches 11,000. In less thantwo months one of the roads is expected to be in complete opera-tion. The above contracts are made with 9 different roads. In reply to several questions by members of the club Mr. Ren-shaw stated that roughly 5 to 15 per cent of the losses of d. c. equipments is saved by the elimination of rheostatic control u) thea. c. system, but that against this must lie charged a sacrifice of some5 per cent in motor efficiency. The line voltage of 3,000 allows thesub-station to be spaced a reasonable distance apart, and as one goesalioul this voltage the troubles with the trolley line conslruclionmount up very fast. Touring Car Service in Cleveland. riio Cleveland Electric Railway Co. reports a very successfulseason with its touring car service, which opened July ist andclosed Oct. 23rd, being in operation 115 days. This service has
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I LEVEI.AND TOURING CAR. been one of the best mediums for advertising Cleveland thathas been introduced and is so admitted by Cleveland businessmen. The car used for this purpose is one of the convertible typewith a seating capacity for 70 people. Only that number of personswere allowed on the car, none were allowed to stand. There wasno extra expense for guards as the conductors explained the pointsof interest along the different routes. Cash fares were collectedfrom each passenger, no tickets being used. The cars started fromthe public square and passengers were taken only at this point andin the down town district but were allowed to leave at any pointupon signal. Three daily trips were made each day at 10 a. m..12 m. and 2 p. ni., the car being run at such hours that it did notinterfere in any way with the regular traffic. The trip lasts twohours and the fare was 2Sc. Statements for this service show the average number of car milesper day, 95; average number of hours per day, gVi;

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