. The Street railway journal . e wish the new road a long life and a happy one. Coal Mine Ownership by Electric Railways There has been a nolicealjle mox ement lately among electricrailway, light and ]30wer conqianies, wdiich are large con-sumers of coal, to procure their own coal mines so as to con-trol as far as possible the supply of coal needed to keep theirproperties in operaton. Not a few interurlian roads are nowm a position where they can haul consideralile coal for their(jvvn use and for retailing along the line. As coal prices seemto have a steadily u]_)ward tendency, there would see
. The Street railway journal . e wish the new road a long life and a happy one. Coal Mine Ownership by Electric Railways There has been a nolicealjle mox ement lately among electricrailway, light and ]30wer conqianies, wdiich are large con-sumers of coal, to procure their own coal mines so as to con-trol as far as possible the supply of coal needed to keep theirproperties in operaton. Not a few interurlian roads are nowm a position where they can haul consideralile coal for their(jvvn use and for retailing along the line. As coal prices seemto have a steadily u]_)ward tendency, there would seem to beconsiderable wisdom in getting hold of good mining propertiesat this time rather than to wait until later, when prices on coaland coal mining inoperties have aflvanced. 8o4 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. i8. NEW SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CARS WITH STEEL UNDER-FRAMES, FOR THE BROOKLYN RAPIDTRANSIT COMPANY One of the most important of the many recent improvementsu])on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company lias been the recent. INTERIOR OF THE NEW BROOKLYN SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR year that, with the present rate of development of traffic inBrooklyn, a considerable additional equipment would soon berequired to handle the rapidly increasing business. During thepast few years the records show that the traffic in Brooklyn hasgrown far more rapidly than provisions could be made forhandling it. To provide in advance for the inevitable development in thisdepartment, and also to provide a suitable amount of reserveequipment, an order was placed, in 1903, by the company for100 elevated cars to supplement those already in use by thecompany. These cars were delivered last fall and are nowlargely equipped and in service. They involve many radicaldepartures in car construction, both as to framing methods andas to provisions for catering for the very heavy sununer trafficwith which the Brooklyn elevated lines leading to the oceansummer resorts are favored. For the latter purpose, the carswere d
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