. The Street railway journal . of 250h. p. There are six steel stacks each serving two station is light and well ventilated, and while not asmodern in its appointments as that in Newark, is doing ex-cellent service. Coal is received directly in the rear of the station froma siding of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The coal cars riuion a trestle some twenty feet in height and dump the fueldirectly in the rear of the boiler room. A new switch-board of the General Electric panel type will be installedin this station. OWING to the fact that thecompanys older rollingstock was in large part
. The Street railway journal . of 250h. p. There are six steel stacks each serving two station is light and well ventilated, and while not asmodern in its appointments as that in Newark, is doing ex-cellent service. Coal is received directly in the rear of the station froma siding of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The coal cars riuion a trestle some twenty feet in height and dump the fueldirectly in the rear of the boiler room. A new switch-board of the General Electric panel type will be installedin this station. OWING to the fact that thecompanys older rollingstock was in large part in--yyl herited from the formercompanies now forming theConsolidated Traction Company, and that these companieswere operating under different conditions and differentmanagements, the rolling stock is of various types. Allrecent cars, however, have been of one or two styles whichhave now been adopted as standard; the twenty foot singletruck car for city service and the twenty five-foot doubletruck car for the interurban The total number of car bodies owned is 700, of which105 are double truck cars, employed exclusively on theinterurban line. Trailers are not used. The company isalso well fitted for caring for heavy snow falls and has inits car houses ready for service, thirty White snow plowsand thirty McGuire sweepers. Many of the leading car manufacturers, includingStephenson, Laclede, Brill, Pullman and Trimble, arerepresented in the equipment of the company. The lasttwenty-five foot open cars were supplied by the LacledeCompany and the last twenty foot box cars by Brill. Two body colors are used; red for the double truck in-terurban cars and lemon chromeyellow for all others. The lattercolor has been found the cheapest,most durable and in every way themost satisfactory, except that inrepainting cars in the repair shopmore difficulty has been experi-enced in matching the shade thanwith other colors. The standard specifications forthe twenty foot box cars of thecompan
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