. The street railway review . ter. A 100-lb. third-rail is used, supported on reconstructed granite insu-lators, one insulator to every fifth tie, the center line being at a dis-tance of 20 in. from the gage line of the track rail, and having atop surface 6?s in. above the top of the track rail The third-railextends from the Race Track, miles from the city limits ofSeattle, to the city limits of Tacoma, a total distance of trolley is used from the Race Track to the city limits ofSeattle and within the city limits of Seattle and the city limitsof Tacoma. In order to ma
. The street railway review . ter. A 100-lb. third-rail is used, supported on reconstructed granite insu-lators, one insulator to every fifth tie, the center line being at a dis-tance of 20 in. from the gage line of the track rail, and having atop surface 6?s in. above the top of the track rail The third-railextends from the Race Track, miles from the city limits ofSeattle, to the city limits of Tacoma, a total distance of trolley is used from the Race Track to the city limits ofSeattle and within the city limits of Seattle and the city limitsof Tacoma. In order to make the cross-section of the conductoruniform throughout, two 500,000-c. m. feeders supplement thetrolley and trolley feeders from the end of the third-rail to the trains a day, a train of two or three cars leaving every hour fromeither end of the line. Four of the trains run on a limited schedule,making no stops between the two cities. The total distance of 36miles is covered in 1 hr. 15 min. The terminals of the route are at. SUB-STATION ANI> CAR HOUSES AT KENT. the center of the business portions ol the two cities and here trans-fers arc given over local lines to all points within the limits of eithercity. In Seattle, there are miles of track over which trainsmust operate at a slow speed and a similar condition exists in operat-ing over miles of the route in Tacoma. In the schedules, 15 126 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW [Vol. XVI, No. 3. minutes time is allowed for running this four miles of track withinthe limits of the two cities, thus leaving 32 miles which must be runin 45 minutes in order to maintain the established schedule a junction point, 12 miles south of Seattle, there is a branch this branch are of the same type. Each train consists of one motorand one trailer. Freight Puget Sound Electric Ry. has given much attention to build-
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