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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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ere is no reason to suppose that it will be pushed rapidlyinto the rough and tumble of miscellaneous railway work. Thesteam locomotive is a remarkably effective machine, even now,and its improvement is highly desirable as part of the generaladvance of transportation. 222 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 7. EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IN ELEVATED CAR EQUIP-MENTS-BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY In line with the general policy of improvement now in forceupon the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Companys lines, importantchanges are being made in the equipment of cars for their ele-vated lines, in order to bring them up to a standard commen-surate with the present state of the traffic handled. This com-pany has, like so many of the other railroads which havechanged from steam to electric traction, experienced the abnor-mally rapid growth of traffic which has resulted from thisefficient and desirable system of transportation, and it has beenalmost impossible to keep the standards of car equipment up
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TYPICAL VIEW OF ONE OF THE RECONSTRUCTED ELEVATED MUIOR CARSSHOWING DETAILS OF STANDARD PLATFORMS, ETC.—BROOKLYNRAPID TRANSIT COMPANY to the high grade which is required by theever increasing conditions imposed by theenormous traffic now handled. As electricrailroading has grown in importance and itsefficiency and reliability have become estab-lished, heavier cars, longer trains and morerapid schedules have been placed in force,with the inevitable result that the operatingconditions have grown away from the formerstandards of car equipment. The mechanical department of the BrooklynRapid Transit Company has been greatly ham-pered for some time past in the operation ofits elevated service, owing to the large num-ber of different classes of rolling stock whichwere bequeathed to it by the former com-panies, of which the present company is acombination. The elevated lines of the com-pany comprise a union of the old KingsCounty Elevated and the Brooklyn UnionElevated Railroads; together w

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