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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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. Inthe fifth and last consideration the railroad company oper-ating over its own right of way cannot expect to competewith the street railway which occupies the highwaj^ Thequestion of frequency of service then alone remains, and thisis one largely of amount of traffic. If the latter is in such 540 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIL No. 9.
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Skptkmbkr, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 541 amount as to warrant the frequent running of steam trainsat short intervals, little will be gained by the applicationof electricity. Tiiat is, if there are enough passengers tofill three or four-car trains running on a headway of fromten to fifteen minutes or oftener, but little more suburbantravel would probably be gained by single electric cars atmore frequent intervals. If however the traffic will onlywarrant the operation of trains at long intervals, say,once an hour, there would be a distinct traffic advantagein operating single electrical cars at more frequentintervals. This seems to have been the line of reasoning followedby the managers of the New York, New Haven & HartfordRailroad Company, whose engineers are now looking verycarefully into the subject of the third rail system of trans-mitting the current to the cars. The experiments on theNantasket Beach line are familiar to the readers of theStreet Railway Journal, and after

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