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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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le-deck cars were put inuse June 2Gth, and from that date tothe present time, when we have twelve ofthem on the road, they have been wellpatronized. I think the enclosed articleclipped from the Globe-Democrat, willbest explain their popularity.* The experiment has been accompaniedby most satisfactory results, when youtake into consideration that the seatingcapacity is only eighty people per car. A. DE FlGUEIBEDO, General Manager.St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 13. •The article referred to was printed In substanceIn the August Street Kailway Journal. A Novel Electric Car. Editors Street Railway Journal:— I notice that a Chicago inventor is ex-perimenting in the barns of the ChicagoCity road with a novel electric car. Thecar contains no machinery whatever and norevolving part excepting wheels and axles. The plan, something after that shown inthe illustration, is to place a lodestone,something in the form of a saw tooth,between the rails LLLL in the engraving,which attracts a magnet M, which is
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* L- A NOVEL ELECTRIC CAR, shortly be incumbent upon the govern-ment to legislate upon this matter, as thatof Great Britain has already done throughthe medium of the Board of Trade. Thomas Whiteside Rae.Jersey City, N. J. Double-Decker Cars. The J. G. Brill Company recently builtthe St. Louis Cable & Western Railwaytwelve double-decked cars. In responseto a letter written by us to General Mana-ger A. de Figueiredo asking about thepopularity of the innovation, we have thefollowing:— Editors Street Railway Journal :— Your letter of inquiry dated Aug. 10 received, and in compliance with same I have taken some days as samples, and send you a correct statement of number of trips made, and passengers carried. Coach No. Trips Passengers Average per TripNo. —Hound— 81 13 2,223 171 5-13 82 14 2,249 160 9-14£4 5 1,304 260 4-5 82 16 1,651 103 3-16 84 10 1,289 128 9-10 85 9 1,033 114 7-9 83 9 1,311 145 6-981 10 1,093 103 9-10 84 - 9 840 93 1-392 8 1,000 125 85 8 964 120 1-291 9 941 1

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