. The Street railway journal . SEE DETAIL. NOVEL METHOD FOR REDUCING JOLTING OF CARS. rapid and perfect circulation of air, is unusually cool inoperation. It easily stands a 50 per cent, overload with-out injury or sparking. The shaft is very heavy, withlarge bearings of the ball and socket, self-oiling type,lined with best quality babbit metal. The car house is a frame building 36 X 100 ft.,with two car pits and planked floor throughout. Anextension is made on one side near the front end as astore room and office for the motormen and handsome cupola, with flagstaff, surmounts the
. The Street railway journal . SEE DETAIL. NOVEL METHOD FOR REDUCING JOLTING OF CARS. rapid and perfect circulation of air, is unusually cool inoperation. It easily stands a 50 per cent, overload with-out injury or sparking. The shaft is very heavy, withlarge bearings of the ball and socket, self-oiling type,lined with best quality babbit metal. The car house is a frame building 36 X 100 ft.,with two car pits and planked floor throughout. Anextension is made on one side near the front end as astore room and office for the motormen and handsome cupola, with flagstaff, surmounts the frontend of the car house. The car house is sixteen feet in theclear under the trusses, thus permitting the trolley poles toassume a nearly vertical position when the cars are storedin the building. An interesting feature of the electricalstation equipment is the Barber electric water wheelregulator, a brief description of which may prove inter-esting. It consists of two sets of solenoids and resistances,one set of which is almost contin
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