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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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to the community? The answer to every one of these questions is aninteresting story. But no one is going out of his way to dig out thematerial for these stories; the railway must do it. It is its business to do it because a knowledgeof the answers to these and related questions areessential to the establishment of a fair attitudetoward the railways. Think it over. Dont you want the public to knowwhat you have done, are doing and will do FORyour town if you are given a chance? The telling of these things—with others—is pub-licity work. It takes a publicity man—with no other duties onhis hands—to do this work the way it should bedone. The main thing, however, is for electric railwaymanagements to decide that from now on there isgoing to be available at least as much informationas there is misinformation about them. Whats the use of living, if the bad we do is bulle-tined daily, while the good is saved to be buried withour bones? 1050 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XLVIII, No. 21
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NORTHERN OHIO TRACTIONS STEEL CAR—EXTERIOR VIEW OF COMPLETELY EQUIPPED MOTOR CAR Car Weight Reduced by Steel Construction A Description of the New Steel Interurban Passenger Cars Recently Receivedby the Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company, Akron, Ohio—These Cars Combine Reasonable Weight with Substantial Construction andWeigh 12,000 Lb. Less Than Steel-Underframe Cars of the Same Type ALTHOUGH the steel interurban cars recently pur- lb. is in the body and its equipment, including airchased by the Northern Ohio Traction & Light brakes, heaters and other fittings. The motor equip-Company, Akron, Ohio, are not radical in any par- ment weighs 15,000 lb. and the trucks weigh 10,000 lb.ticular, they represent the product of a very careful each. The old steel-underframe cars weigh 82,000 lb.,study of the service requirements. They are 12,000 lb. and they are equipped with GE 204, 75-hp. motors. Thelighter than this companys steel-underframe cars of new cars are equipped with G

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