. The Street railway journal . he smoking room comes nextand seats twenty-four persons, and lastly,there is the main passenger compartment,which seats comfortably about thirty-eightpeople, and contains lavatory, drinking-fountain, hat-racks, coat-hooks, etc. Theinterior finish is in antique quarter-cut oak,and all color work, such as the leaded glasstransoms, deck lights, etc., are in subduedtones of brown and green, giving to the carsa very restful sensation—in fact, they areprobably the finest cars of their kind thathave yet been put in commission in Canada. The motor equipment is composed o
. The Street railway journal . he smoking room comes nextand seats twenty-four persons, and lastly,there is the main passenger compartment,which seats comfortably about thirty-eightpeople, and contains lavatory, drinking-fountain, hat-racks, coat-hooks, etc. Theinterior finish is in antique quarter-cut oak,and all color work, such as the leaded glasstransoms, deck lights, etc., are in subduedtones of brown and green, giving to the carsa very restful sensation—in fact, they areprobably the finest cars of their kind thathave yet been put in commission in Canada. The motor equipment is composed offour of the new GE No. 73 motors of 75hp each, giving 300 hp per car. The typeM control is used, the first instance, it issaid, of its employment in Canada. Theside elevation herewith gives some idea ofthe general appearance of these new total weight of the car equipped withNo. 27 G Curtis trucks and motors, as de-scribed, is about twenty-eight tons. Thelength over all is 55 ft. 7 ins., and the widthis 9 ft. 3 732 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 17. GASOLINE MOTOR CARS FOR RAILWAY SERVICE The meeting of the New York Railroad Club held onFriday evening, April 19, was devoted to the reading ofand discussion on a paper on Gasoline Motor Cars forRailway Service, by W. R. McKeen, Jr., who, as super-intendent of motive power and machinery at Omaha, isin charge of the gasoline motor-car development of theUnion Pacific Railroad. Mr. McKeen opened his paper by a brief reference to thesuccess his company had had in operating gasoline enginesfor work in pumping and cc ig stations. It appears thatthese are delivering power at per hp-hour, compared with $ per hp-hour by stean Ogines. Operating without locomotives had proven popular, asin the case of electric railways, because it enabled the car-riage of passengers and freight by small power units atfrequent intervals. Since electrification requires a heavyline investment, the car for sparsely settled districts
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