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The demand in recent years for improved street railway service has developed an active interest in the cost and efficiency of cable roads, but the contributions to the general fund of knowledge by those who have built or operated them have not been in proportion to the importance of the subject. There has been so much misinformation about the net results which can be expected from a cable railway, inspired by commercial interests, or by a vicious tendency to generalize without studying the special cases, that it seems proper to present a few facts, and to draw from them some inferences as to the real importance of what have been properly considered as serious objections to the cable system.
The demand in recent years for improved street railway service has developed an active interest in the cost and efficiency of cable roads, but the contributions to the general fund of knowledge by those who have built or operated them have not been in proportion to the importance of the subject. There has been so much misinformation about the net results which can be expected from a cable railway, inspired by commercial interests, or by a vicious tendency to generalize without studying the special cases, that it seems proper to present a few facts, and to draw from them some inferences as to the real importance of what have been properly considered as serious objections to the cable system.
Notes on Cost of Operating Cable Railways
Bontecou, D. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 28 ; 250-256
2021-01-01
71893-01-01 pages
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