. The street railway review . re obliged 10 return because the equip-ment was not sufficient to lake care of them. The receipts of n that day were stated to have heen aliout $ per curb quotations on the stock of tin- company are 98 to 102for preferred and 30 to 4J for the common. Sept. jo, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY RKY1EW. 5()7 CONVERTIBLE BALLAST CARS. In view of the rapid development of interurban electric railway*which arc being built in great numbers, upon a scale very much Mended than was usual a few and the fact that the importance of a well built and thoroughly ballas
. The street railway review . re obliged 10 return because the equip-ment was not sufficient to lake care of them. The receipts of n that day were stated to have heen aliout $ per curb quotations on the stock of tin- company are 98 to 102for preferred and 30 to 4J for the common. Sept. jo, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY RKY1EW. 5()7 CONVERTIBLE BALLAST CARS. In view of the rapid development of interurban electric railway*which arc being built in great numbers, upon a scale very much Mended than was usual a few and the fact that the importance of a well built and thoroughly ballasted track is tter realized than ever before, the ballast cars shown in sec-tion in the accompanying engravings will be of interest at thistime. These are known as the Hart convertible type, as built by dger Ballast Car of Chicago Phis company has bada great deal ice in the design ami construction of ballast cars, its earlier designs having been placed on the market sometwelve Hi! 15,000 01 more of the Rodger ballast cars. its position over the truck back to the extreme end of the plat-form. The class C S car is provided with side doors, so that if desired11 may be operated as a side dump ballast car, as shown in Fig. ,;.or as a hopper bottom center dump car. as shown in Fig, 4. Thiscar also, it is apparent, may be converted to a flat bottom gondolalor general freight service. The company also makes a hopperbottom ballast car which may lie converted to a flat car for generalservice (this is know 11 as the F. II. type), and a box car whichmay be converted to a hopper bottom dump car. The general dimensions of the C C and C S cats mentioned are:length over end sills, 34 ft.; width over side sills, 8 ft. 9 in.; heightinside. 4 ft. They are made with wooden outside stakes or steelinside stakes, the former being shown in Fig. J and the latter inFig. 1. The hopper-fiat cars, class F. II., are 40 ft. long. Each of
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