. The street railway review . LOOKING WEST FROM SPLIT ROCK BRIDGE. gravel pit; there is a number of both wheeled and slip scraperswhich are used in digging gravel. .A.! the gravel pit are a storagehouse for feed, a conk house, with full kitchen outfit, and a bunkhouse for 15 men. Tlie company does considerable business insupplying gravel for building some of the local country roads, andhas supplied as much as 16 car loads per day to Spring Valley. Atanother pit in Webster Park, 10 cu. yd. of gravel per hour are deliv-ered with two teams. Sul)-Stations. There arc two sub-stations along the line
. The street railway review . LOOKING WEST FROM SPLIT ROCK BRIDGE. gravel pit; there is a number of both wheeled and slip scraperswhich are used in digging gravel. .A.! the gravel pit are a storagehouse for feed, a conk house, with full kitchen outfit, and a bunkhouse for 15 men. Tlie company does considerable business insupplying gravel for building some of the local country roads, andhas supplied as much as 16 car loads per day to Spring Valley. Atanother pit in Webster Park, 10 cu. yd. of gravel per hour are deliv-ered with two teams. Sul)-Stations. There arc two sub-stations along the line, one of which is nearOttawa, and is shown in one of the accompanying illustrations, and. SUB-STATION AT OTTAWA, ILL. the other is on a long grade not far from the western terminus ofthe road. The Ottawa station is a rotary converter sub-station ofthe usual type, and contains standard Stanley equipment of step-down transformers, rotary converter, etc. The other station is astorage battery station, and contains a battery of Chloride accumu-lators which floats upon the line. Some Operating Points. The only card tickets used by the company are return trip tickets,no single trip tickets being sold. A reduction of 5 cents is made onreturn tickets. Three styles of books of tickets are in use. one ofwhich is a commutation book, issued for an individual, betweentwo given points. Another book contains 100 coupon tickets of aface value of five dollars, which is sold for $, or a reductionof 10 per cent. The other book is a lOO-ticket coupon book with r riding on badges is permitted. The collector must collect cither acash fare or a ticket from every passenger. A rather unusual me
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