. Giornale ferroviario elettrico . Tradizioni sotto cui One-Man Car OperationWould be successful - Esperienza di SouthernIllinois Public Utilities Company DI J. B. ERVIN General Engineer Westinghouse Electric & ManufacturingCompany, East Pittsburgh, Pa. È stato dichiarato che le auto leggere e monomandiere sono in uso su 100 ferrovie in questo paese aione.This è uno sviluppo comparativamente recente nel settore ferroviario elettrico-trico, ed è desiderabile imparare le ragioni thevarious per la loro adozione e studiare le condizioni thetrafffic incontrate ed i risultati realizzhedso che il campo appropriato per questa ty
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. Electric railway journal . ditions Under Which One-Man Car OperationWould Be Successful—Experience of SouthernIllinois Public Utilities Company BY J. B. ERVIN General Engineer Westinghouse Electric & ManufacturingCompany, East Pittsburgh, Pa. IT has been stated that light-weight, one-man cars arenow in use on 100 railways in this country aione.This is a comparatively recent development in the elec-tric railway industry, and it is desirable to learn thevarious reasons for their adoption and to study thetraffic conditions encountered and results accomplishedso that the proper field for this type of car may be moredefinitely established. Through the courtesy of the Southern Illinois PublicUtilities Company the writer recently had the oppor-tunity to become familiar with the railway conditionsin Anderson, S. C. These are strikingly similar to theconditions in Corpus Christi, Tex., as described in apaper by D. R. Locker presented before the meeting ofthe Southwestern Electrical & Gas Association last May.f. ONE-MAN CAR, SOUTHERN PUBLIC UTILITIES COMPANY Corpus Christi has a population of about 20, 000 with10 miles of track, while that of Anderson is less by per-haps 5000, but the track mileage is the same. Bothrailways had been recently subjected to very heavy trackreconstruction expenses on account of the paving of theprincipal city streets, and the operating revenues of bothhave suffered by reason of the automobile traffic. Both companies decided that the light-weight, one-man car offered the best prospect for increasing netearnings and, now that one-man operation has been triedout, are well satisfied with the change. In Corpus Christi the headways, which were previ-ously fifteen and twenty minutes, have been cut in halfwith an increase of only 6 per cent in operating ex-pense, while the earnings have increased 30 per cent. Inmaking the change the Corpus Christi Railway & LightCompany purchased eight new cars weighing 12, 000 lb., seating twenty-six passengers and equ
