. Electric railway review . and Lakeside car motors are geared for a rated speed of 35 miles perhour with a 500-volt current; with the present 600-volt cur-rent a speed of about 40 miles per hour is company owns 44 double truck ears. All of the re-cently added new cars are of the companys own manufac-ture, and were built and designed by Mr. Pratt at the shopsat Webb City under his supervision. The old cars were builtby the Laclede Car Company. About 35 cars are used forregular service. The cars now being adopted as standardare 42 feet in length over all and 8 fe
. Electric railway review . and Lakeside car motors are geared for a rated speed of 35 miles perhour with a 500-volt current; with the present 600-volt cur-rent a speed of about 40 miles per hour is company owns 44 double truck ears. All of the re-cently added new cars are of the companys own manufac-ture, and were built and designed by Mr. Pratt at the shopsat Webb City under his supervision. The old cars were builtby the Laclede Car Company. About 35 cars are used forregular service. The cars now being adopted as standardare 42 feet in length over all and 8 feet 7 inches wide oversills and are built from specially selected timber. Four steelI-beams extend the full length of the car, from bumper tobumper, and the body of the car rests on these beams. Achannel bar forming the bumper iron is placed over theends of the I-beams and is riveted to each of the beams byangle plates. The roof is of the canopy type. The interiorof the car is finished in imitation of antique oak and is di-. est Missouri Railroad—Cartervllle-Lakeside Cut-off, Showing Fill. wires is effected at evory sixth pole. On the high-tensionwires one complete transposition is made between substa-tions. The wires leading out of the substations pass througha six-inch tile and through a hole in the center of a glassplate set in the cross section of the tile. The wires are leddirectly to a pole set in front of the aperture so that nostrain towers are required. Operating movement of cars is directed over the telephone bya train dispatcher, whose office is located over the verandaof the companys office building at Webb City, across thestreet from the car barn. Turnout switches are located sothat cars may be passed on the single-track line every 15 min-utes, and a small telephone booth is fastened to the polessupporting the overhead wires at every meeting point. In-stead of using a train sheet to keep informed of the positionof each car on the road a unique arrangeme
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