. The Street railway journal . ^limits. Thirty more accumulator cars have been ordered,while fourteen of the present trollej- motor cars were beingchanged into accumulator cars. It was therefore expectedthat there would be fourteen accumulator cars in senaceby the present summer. The present equipment of the power station includesthree water tube safety boilers of about 175 h. p. each,running under a steam pressure of about 145 lbs. Thereare two horizontal compound engines, each of 200 h. p.,operating railroad generators. There is also a 40 h. for running the tool machinery in the too
. The Street railway journal . ^limits. Thirty more accumulator cars have been ordered,while fourteen of the present trollej- motor cars were beingchanged into accumulator cars. It was therefore expectedthat there would be fourteen accumulator cars in senaceby the present summer. The present equipment of the power station includesthree water tube safety boilers of about 175 h. p. each,running under a steam pressure of about 145 lbs. Thereare two horizontal compound engines, each of 200 h. p.,operating railroad generators. There is also a 40 h. for running the tool machinery in the tool .shop,which latter is very well equipped with all the necessaryappliances for making incidental repairs of the extensions in the power were also under con-templation, and will doubtless be carried out shortly. STREET RAILWAY Organization and Operating Methods of theMetropolitan Street Railway Company,of New York. The cable, electric and horse railway lines in NewYork City operated by the Metropolitan Street RailwayCompany, and controlled by the Metropolitan TractionCompany, form a system which undoubtedly is, in its pres-ent earning power and in the possibilities of its future de-velopment, the most valuable street railway property inthe world. A brief accoirnt of the companys history andits scheme of organization, astudj of the traffic conditionsof Manhattan Island, so far as they affect this system, andan outline of the plan of operation and development whichhas been worked out by President Vreeland during histhree years administration of the property is of unusualinterest to all students of municipal transportation prob-lems, for the reason that the system stands to-day as anexponent of the best horse railway practice, cable railwaypractice and underground electric railway practice to befound in this c
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