Electric railway journal (1911) (14736850126)

Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches)

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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tertown 27.07 West Allis to St. Martins 6.17 St. Martins to East Trov 21.25 St. Martins to Burlington 21.96 The service requirements on these lines are heavy dur-ing four summer months. The average daily revenue carmiles run during the four summer months of the yearapproximate 2100 and during the other eight months areapproximately 1400. Ordinarily single cars are run on theEast Troy and Burlington divisions on two-hour headway,but on Saturdays and Sundays as many as four trailers areadded to each motor car to meet the demands of the trafficto and from the numerous resorts served by these inter-urban divisions. The service on the Watertown line hasan hourly schedule during the four summer months. Thedaily motor-car mileage and the Saturday and Sundaytrailer-car mileage for summer and winter months are asshown in Table II. The schedule speeds on the high-voltage portions of theroutes average about 24.5 m.p.h. with maximum speeds of55 m.p.h. The average distance between regular stops is

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Milwaukee Interurban Lines—Interurban Car with Single- Phase Equipment 0.75 mile on the Watertown divisions and 0.83 mile onthe other two divisions. These data and those which followrefer only to service on the high-voltage sections of theinterurban lines. Table II.—Aveeage Daily Car Mileage on 1200-Volt Line. Total 76.45 Summer, four months. Motor cars Saturday trailers Sunday trailers Fall, winter, spring, eight months. Motor cars Saturday trailers Sunday trailers East Watertown. Troy. 97690117 448 37784168 3774284 Bur-lington. 3643240 3642432 Allis, through St. Martins to East Troy, is 27.42 miles, andto Burlington it is 28.13 miles. These routes, with the ex-ception of the West Allis-St. Martins section, also wereoperated with single-phase current and now are operatedwith 1200-volt direct curent. A summary of the mileage, including sidings, of the 1200-volt lines of the Milwaukee Light, Heat & TractionCompany is published in Table I. As earlier stated, the high-voltage lin

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