The Street railway journal (1902) (14575017057)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo191902newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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of accidents per passenger $.0020 Total motor car miles 11,529,453 Motor car miles per accident 3,660 These are also approximately the proportions on theinterurban lines which are included in the above averages,except that on all divisions the cost of collisions was about50 per cent of the total cost of accidents, and of this 50 percent one-half is chargeable to the interurban line betweenSt. Paul and Minneapolis—a figure which it is hoped toreduce by the use of air brakes on the interurban cars.On the Minneapolis & St. Paid Suburban Railway, which people to Wildwood. The average number of cars in op-eration per day of eighteen hours was 5, and the car mile-age was 602,269. Per car mile Passenger earnings $.2242 Miscellaneous earnings 0024 Total gross earnings $ 2266 Maintenance, way and structures $.0051 equipment 0133 Operation of power plant 0403 cars . 0386 General expense 0175 Legal 0017 Injuries and damages 0059 Insurance 0014 Total cost operating per motor car mile $-I238
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VIEWS IN PARKS OF THE TWIN CITY RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY is an interurban line from St. Paul to Stillwater, 20miles, the accident figures for 1901 were as follows: Passengers carried 3,322,044 Passengers per accident 28,018 Cost per passenger #0008 Motor car miles 650,289 Motor car miles per accident 4,655 OPERATING FIGURES OF THE ST. PAUL-STILLWATERINTERURBAN LINE Reliable figures on the operation of interurban electricroads are of special value in these days when there is suchgreat activity in the building of such roads and when itis often hard to get figures based on conservative and ex-perienced management. The line from St. Paul to Stillwater is 20 miles in length.It is divided into six sections, a charge of 5 cents beingmade for each section, or 30 cents for the entire trip fromSt. Paul to Stillwater. The following are the figures on operation for 1900, thosefor 1901 not having been completely tabulated at presentwriting. A half-hour service is given on this line the yearround, but