. Electric railway journal . box. According to the volume of traffic at astation each change maker is supplied with from $50 to$100 in change each morning, the remainder being col-lected at night. Car Built in Small Shop Is Driven byAutomobile Motor BY J. A. HILL Superintendent of Equipment and Maintenance Fairburn & AtlantaRailway & Electric Company An automobile engine furnishes power for the railwaycar shown in the illustration on this page. The car wasbuilt in the small machine shop of the Fairburn & At-lanta Railway & Electric Company, according to the de-sign of the writer. The motor, wh
. Electric railway journal . box. According to the volume of traffic at astation each change maker is supplied with from $50 to$100 in change each morning, the remainder being col-lected at night. Car Built in Small Shop Is Driven byAutomobile Motor BY J. A. HILL Superintendent of Equipment and Maintenance Fairburn & AtlantaRailway & Electric Company An automobile engine furnishes power for the railwaycar shown in the illustration on this page. The car wasbuilt in the small machine shop of the Fairburn & At-lanta Railway & Electric Company, according to the de-sign of the writer. The motor, which was taken from an old Mitchellautomobile, has six cylinders, 41/4 in. by 6 in. Automo-bile transmission gears are used, giving three forwardspeeds and one reverse. The car turns on Ys at eachend of the line. It is mounted on a Brill 21-E truck,which was sawed in two and lengthened by inserting asection of angle iron to make the wheelbase 12 ft. body is 8 ft. wide and 26 ft. long, including one 4-. INTERURBAN CAR DRIVEN BY OLD AUTOMOBILE ENGINE ft. platform and a 7-ft. engine room. The total seat-ing capacity is twenty-eight. The car runs from Fairburn to College Park, a dis-tance of miles, making the trip in forty minutes,including the time required for ten stops. For eightround trips, about 168 miles, 18 gal. of gasoline and2M> gal. of lubricating oil are required. In a recent issue of the Newark, N. J., Sunday Callthere was given an extensive and well-illustratedarticle on the Plank Road Shops of the Public ServiceRailway. The article described in detail the severaldepartments of the shops, giving statistics as to floorarea, men employed, etc. One of the illustrations wasan outline birds-eye view of the entire shop propertyand adjoining tracks. January 20, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 127 Cost of Erecting Overhead Work—I {From the records of a large Eastern company) The following is the first group of a series ofdiagrams with cost figures to show actu
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