The motor car equipment owned by the Hudson & Manhattan R. R. includes
251 units, all motor cars, each carrying two motors either GE-76, GE-212
or GE-259 and Type M control. The cars are of all-steel construction and
weigh from 35 to 37 tons each without passenger load. The Newark service
requires 96 cars of which 36 are owned and 60 are furnished by the
Pennsylvania R. R. Co. All of these cars are equipped with GE-212
motors.
Train service is operated on a uniform headway varying the number of
cars per train to suit the traffic. Platforms are 370 ft. in length,
which is sufficient to accommodate 8-car trains. The total number of
passengers handled during the year ended June 30, 1921, was 95,607,645.
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