The Street railway journal (1902) (14574512239)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
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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ink that I ever listened to a paper ofmore value to the railroads of New York City or of the UnitedStates than the one that was presented by Mr. Barnes. The sta-tistics and figures presented by Mr. Barnes are only available tohim, and they certainly should be of very great value to the gentle-men who are operating railroads in the State. His recommenda-tions are valuable. I had occasion to say a year or so ago in con-nection with this proceeding at this or the American conventionthat there was no necessity for interurban high-speed roads gath-ering their own experience in connection with the operation oftheir single-track roads. It cost the steam railroads of the UnitedStates billions and billions of dollars to get a scientific and safemethod of operation as far as practical with human agencies tocarry it out. The idea seems to be in the mind of the averageelectric railroad operator that two cars approaching each other atthe rate of 30 miles an hour on single tracks possess no element
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O-J< u UUXh- H< H2<QZ u PL. o QuD o O September 20, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 389 of danger as compared with two railroad trains with locomotivesapproaching at the same rate of speed. The accidents that haveoccurred on steam railroads with head-on collisions cannot be asserious as those in electric railway operation. In the case of stermroads you have two enormous bodies of steel coming togetherwhich take the shock before it reaches the passengers in the car.With electric cars you have got absolutely nothing between thepassengers and the actual crash except in many instances a verylight framework at the front of the car. One of the troubles whichMr. Barnes has stated, and which I have noticed in many partsof the United States, is that while the men who build electricroads get the very best lawyer they can to arrange their franchiseand charter rights, first-class financial men to make their financialarrangements and technical engineers to build their railroads, theyoften