The Street railway journal (1908) (14779922653)

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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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ights, Wilson trolley catchers andNational brake shoes with cast-ironinserts. There are fifteen cars in all,only six of which are needed in win-ter. Seven cars are double-truckclosed, two single-truck closed and sixten-bench, single-truck open. All ofthe single-truck cars are operatedwith G.E.-iooo motors, which wereformerly used on the double-truckcars. Most of the cars were fur-nished by the Wason ManufacturingCompany, and have Wheeler plush orieatheroid seats. None of the carslias a smoking compartment. As anordinary size sand-box would beemptied before the end of a full runon a wet track, because of the manygrades on the line, the cars have extra large cast-iron sand-boxes placed on the platform next to the controller. There are also two Wason single-truck plows for snowfighting, but since the snow problem is a particularly hardone in this section. Root scrapers are attached to all cars inwinter, and they perform splendid service. The car house is of stone and is located two miles

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NEW CONCRETE SECTION OF NORTHAMPTON TRACTIONSTATION COMPANYS POWER from Easton. It is 250 ft. long and 50 ft. wide, giving spacefor four tracks, each of which is provided with steam-heated pits at the rear for 150 ft. The company does allcar repair work, including winding, at this point. As the Fei!RLarv I, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. tracks enter the car house up a grade of 9 to 11 per cent,derailing switches are installed to keep cars in the housefrom running down to the main line. Extra tracks are tobe laid above the car house, so that runaway cars willmove up-hill, thus avoiding possible accidents. CAR OPERATION AND TRAFFIC SOURCES All cars are despatched by telephone over a private tele- A practice of the Northampton Traction Company whichcould profitably be followed by other interurban railwaysis the posting at all the terminals of schedule dials, asshown in one of the accompanying illustrations. The leav-ing time of the following car always is set by the lastconductor. This

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