. Electric railway journal . Philadelphia Suburban Line—Girder Bridge Over Crum Creek a new substation has been built at Drexel Hill, equippedwith two 500-kvv General Electric rotary converters. Theline is equipped throughout with signals. Telephone jack-boxes have been installed at intervals of 1000 ft., making-it possible to telephone directly from any point on the lineto the dispatcher. New cars will be provided for the line, the first consign-ment of them having already been received. These are51 ft. 3 in. in over-all length and 8 ft. Sy2 in. in seats upholstered in leather are
. Electric railway journal . Philadelphia Suburban Line—Girder Bridge Over Crum Creek a new substation has been built at Drexel Hill, equippedwith two 500-kvv General Electric rotary converters. Theline is equipped throughout with signals. Telephone jack-boxes have been installed at intervals of 1000 ft., making-it possible to telephone directly from any point on the lineto the dispatcher. New cars will be provided for the line, the first consign-ment of them having already been received. These are51 ft. 3 in. in over-all length and 8 ft. Sy2 in. in seats upholstered in leather are used, the seatingcapacity being fifty-six. The cars are built with steel. Philadelphia Suburban Line—Interior of Standard Car underframes and contain smoking compartments. Eachcar is equipped with four GE-205 motors of 115 hp and iscapable of maintaining a speed of 40 Westinghouseelectro-pneumatic brakes are used throughout. The totalcost of each of these cars is reported to be about $12,000. 590 ELECTRIC . RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 13. ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE NEW ENGLAND STREETRAILWAY CLUB Six hundred members and guests of the New EnglandStreet Railway Club gathered at the Hotel Somerset, Bos-ton, Mass., on the evening of March 27 to attend the thir-teenth annual meeting and banquet of the on previous anniversaries of the club, the dominant noteof the occasion was one of relaxation and good fellowship,and neither the unpropitious weather without nor the caresof the electric traction industry could dim the enthusiasmof the assembly. The club has grown since its formation in1901 to a present membership of 748, of which sixty-sixw
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