. The Street railway journal . SECTION SWITCH BOXES, OPEN AND CLOSED AUTOMATIC CUT-OUT AND ROLLING DOORS OF CAR HOUSE trie, of Schenectady, which has a magnetic blow-out, and Oerlikon make. Each car has also been fitted with anthe Siemens & Halske, of Berlin, which is of the horn ar- ingenious device for cutting out any defective lamp in therester type. The power station is protected by lightning car, invented by Mr. Schochli, superintendent of repair 732 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 18. shops. The terminals for each lamp in use, as well as forone extra lamp, are brought to a small bo
. The Street railway journal . SECTION SWITCH BOXES, OPEN AND CLOSED AUTOMATIC CUT-OUT AND ROLLING DOORS OF CAR HOUSE trie, of Schenectady, which has a magnetic blow-out, and Oerlikon make. Each car has also been fitted with anthe Siemens & Halske, of Berlin, which is of the horn ar- ingenious device for cutting out any defective lamp in therester type. The power station is protected by lightning car, invented by Mr. Schochli, superintendent of repair 732 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 18. shops. The terminals for each lamp in use, as well as forone extra lamp, are brought to a small board with socketsover one of the doors, and one lamp can easily be short-circuited by a plug, and the extra lamp cut in to make thefive in series required. The car bodies were supplied by. STANDARD CLOSED CAR AND OPEN TRAILER Giessberger & Co., of Zurich, and the SchweizerischeIndustrie-Gesellschaft, of Neuhausen. An open car body, as shown in one of the illustrations can not be used during the morning hours and on coolerdays, no more cars of this kind will be bought. CONSTRUCTION WORK The work of changing the horse-car lines over to elec-tric operation was begun on June 18, 1900,and was finished on Oct. 1, of the same year,in accordance with the programme. The forcerequired consisted of 4 engineers, 9 foremenand 493 workingmen. There were only 6£days on which rain interrupted the work; theconstruction was, therefore, finished in 89^days. As the length of the old horse railwaylines was 9802 m (32,150 ft.) and the lengthof track (reduced to single track) was 19,201m (62,980 ft.), and an average 1 10 m (361 ft.)of the line, or 215 m (705 ft.) of track, werefinished per real working day. The workinghours were from 4 a. m. to 7 130 p. m., or from6 a. m. to 9 p. m. Nigh
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