. The Street railway journal . thsteel roof trusses. There is a water tower, containing atank of large capacity, placed near the car houses and con-nected by water mains to hydrants and hose distributedthrough the buildings. Chemical extinguishers are alsoprovided to give further protection against fire. The carhouses are heated by steam. Adjoining the car houses is the repair shop, 150 ft. long 144 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 5. by 30 ft. wide, containing a complete equipment of machineshop and wood-working tools for making all ordinary re-pairs to the rolling stock. ROLLING STOCK T
. The Street railway journal . thsteel roof trusses. There is a water tower, containing atank of large capacity, placed near the car houses and con-nected by water mains to hydrants and hose distributedthrough the buildings. Chemical extinguishers are alsoprovided to give further protection against fire. The carhouses are heated by steam. Adjoining the car houses is the repair shop, 150 ft. long 144 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 5. by 30 ft. wide, containing a complete equipment of machineshop and wood-working tools for making all ordinary re-pairs to the rolling stock. ROLLING STOCK The road operates twenty-one closed and eighteen opencars of various types. These were built by the Jewett, are equipped with electric heaters, made by the Consoli-dated Car Heating Company, of Albany, N. Y. The inter-urban cars have registers, made by the Ohmer Car Reg-ister Company, of Dayton, Ohio, and the city cars haveregisters made by the New Haven Car Register Company,of New Haven, Conn. The Ohmer register is so arranged. CAR HOUSE AT SHARON Wason, Jones and Stephenson Companies, and areequipped with trucks made by the Peckham Manufactur-ing Company. The largest cars, which are 50 ft., vesti-buled interurbans, weigh 25 tons, and, as seen from theaccompanying illustration, are first-class examples of themodern heavy electric railway car. There are also 30-ft. that several different classes of fares can be rung up, andincludes in its mechanism a device by means of which aprinted record of all the business done by the car can bemade at the end of each trip on a roll of paper contained inthe case and a slip which is torti off at the end of the daycontains this record.
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