. The Street railway journal . ; andit is remarked that the interest taken by the ladies in theirwork, and their loyalty to the company is above that usuallymanifest on the part of male employes. The power for operating the cars on the SoldiersHome extension is generated at a small station locatednear the end of the 3d Street line, in which a generatorof forty kilowatts is employed, which was manufacturedby the Shawhan-Thresher Company, of Dayton. Whenthe new station is completed this plant will be abandoned,and the entire system operated from the new power house. The present stables and car b
. The Street railway journal . ; andit is remarked that the interest taken by the ladies in theirwork, and their loyalty to the company is above that usuallymanifest on the part of male employes. The power for operating the cars on the SoldiersHome extension is generated at a small station locatednear the end of the 3d Street line, in which a generatorof forty kilowatts is employed, which was manufacturedby the Shawhan-Thresher Company, of Dayton. Whenthe new station is completed this plant will be abandoned,and the entire system operated from the new power house. The present stables and car barns belonging to thesystem are of brick and very substantially of these are shown in the accompanying will all be made over for storing the electric cars,and in one of them the repair shop will be installed. Oneof these station barns is now equipped with a trans-fer table which operates on a track extending under theporch, upon which the cars are drawn when they are Street Railway Journal |. FIG. 5.—PLAN OF POWER STATION—CITY RAILWAY CO., DAYTON. was designed by Bert L. Baldwin, engineer of the Cincin-nati Street Railway Company. ROLLING STOCK. The car equipment, with which the lines are to beopened, consists of twenty open cars manufactured by theBarney & Smith Car Company, of Dayton, O. These arefurnished with cross seats with a center aisle, and are pro-vided with fare boxes, as they are to be run without con-ductors. The cars are mounted on the Barney & Smithtrucks, and are provided with a double equipment ofG. E. 800, twenty-five horse power motors. The wheelsare also of the Barney & Smith manufacture. Motormen are paid twenty cents a trip, or about $ day for twelve hours work. On busy days inspectorsare placed on the cars to assist in collecting the fares. Itis the opinion of the manager that whatever losses mayoccur from running conductorless cars will not amount toone-quarter the wages of a conductor. It is the practiceof th
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