The Street railway journal (1902) (14574932649)

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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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ters and are carriedon insulators mounted on the 4-in.x 6-in. supports to thedirect-current rotary panels of the switchboard. Thedirect-current feeders run out of the wall at the right of theswitchboard, facing it. Three No. 4 lead-covered wires arerun from the transformers to the lightning arresters. The switchboard is composed of six panels and is locatedin the center of the sub-station near the wall opposite thedoor. Two are for direct-current feeders, two for alter-nating-current rotaries and two for direct-current rotaryservice. No unusual features are encountered in theswitchboard. Soapstone barriers are used in oil switches.A large park is operated by the company at MayflowerGrove. Little Sandy Bottom Pond has an area of about 66acres, and the park is equipped with a theater, carousel,launch, canoes, boats, refreshment booths, facilities forchecking bicycles and horses, etc. A rest room for womenis provided in the keepers house, containing rockers, cribs STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.

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398 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIX. No. 14. and an emergency medicine chest for physicians use. Thepark patronage is rapidly growing. On the heaviest Sun-day in June, 1901, the road carried 13,226 passengers, andabout 3000 people visited the grove. The rolling stock consists of twenty-seven cars, classifiedas six vestibuled 8-wheelers, four short box cars, eight 12-bench, three 15-bench, four 10-bench and two 8-bench opencars. There is also one tower, one work car and one flatcar in service, two Taunjton nose snowplows and one Peck-ham rotary plow, equipped with two Westinghouse 38-Bmotors for running the fan and two G. E.-57S for pro-pulsion. The closed cars were built by the Laconia CarCompany and are 39 ft. 8 ins. over bumpers, 38 ft. 8f ins.over vestibules, seat forty passengers and have a 29-ft. 4§-in. body each. From center to center of seats is 32! ins.;the seats over all are each 32 ins. and aisles 20 ins. wide.The width of body outside over posts is 7 ft. 11 ins., and the

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