. The Street railway journal . ules to electricity. Water-power upto 600 hp will be developed and transmitted some 8 miles. Thecompany is now operating 10 miles of track. An additional 5miles will be added. L. E. Allen, of San Jose, Costa Rica, hasbeen appointed engineer of the company, and will have chargeof the work. The Lake Shore (steam) has completed a spur betweenElyria and Lorain, and is going after the local business hereto-fore held by the electric lines, by operating passenger trains be-tween the towns morning and evening at a 5-cent fare. 376 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 8
. The Street railway journal . ules to electricity. Water-power upto 600 hp will be developed and transmitted some 8 miles. Thecompany is now operating 10 miles of track. An additional 5miles will be added. L. E. Allen, of San Jose, Costa Rica, hasbeen appointed engineer of the company, and will have chargeof the work. The Lake Shore (steam) has completed a spur betweenElyria and Lorain, and is going after the local business hereto-fore held by the electric lines, by operating passenger trains be-tween the towns morning and evening at a 5-cent fare. 376 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 8. A NEW FORM OF EVEN-FLOW FEED-WATER HEATER NEW CARS FOR DECATUR The Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company, of Taun-ton, Mass., has recently brought out its K schedule Wain-wright even-flow water-tube heater. This later type preservesall of the valuable features possessed by the companys well-known B schedule heater, and, in addition, contains new andequally valuable features of its own. No reduction has been Zap mr OAZJUYl. Two closed cars like the one illustrated have lately been de-livered to the Decatur Railway & Light Company by the Amer-ican Car Company. As the cars are to be run in one direction,entrances are provided at only one side of the vestibules, andsemi-accelerator doors of the Brownell type are used. Thecars are transversely seated with a capacity of thirty-two. Atthe forward right-hand corner and the rear left-hand cornerthe transverse seats are arranged to hold three passengers,while in the opposite corners the seats are for one the seating arrangement does not interfere in the slightest
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