. The street railway review . team engine testing. on Baltimore Car Wheel Companys trucks, and twentyopen 22-foot trail cars. Each closed car has one 25-horse-power General Electric waterproof motor. Thestation equipment consists of three loo-kilowatt GeneralElectric generators, three 150-horse-power Mcintosh & (^^tied/j\aiWAy9^ytev/ 7;n Seymour compound condensing engines; three loo-horse-power Rantoms water tube boilers. The steam plant was erected complete by Pierce &Miller Engineering Company, of New York. The carbarn, power house, and work shops combined, is a brickbuilding of ample size,
. The street railway review . team engine testing. on Baltimore Car Wheel Companys trucks, and twentyopen 22-foot trail cars. Each closed car has one 25-horse-power General Electric waterproof motor. Thestation equipment consists of three loo-kilowatt GeneralElectric generators, three 150-horse-power Mcintosh & (^^tied/j\aiWAy9^ytev/ 7;n Seymour compound condensing engines; three loo-horse-power Rantoms water tube boilers. The steam plant was erected complete by Pierce &Miller Engineering Company, of New York. The carbarn, power house, and work shops combined, is a brickbuilding of ample size, not onlj to answer the needs ofthe present, but for several years to come. for the past few years has been coming rapidly to thefront as a port for exporting coal, lumber, etc. Lastyear it became a formidable rival to New Orleans as animporter of fruit. The climate is delightful the year round, for while thesummers are very long, still the heat is not intense, andin the evenings is tempered by delightful breezes from. PLAN OF POWFR ANI) CAR HOUSE, MOBILE. The rebuilding of tracks and equipping the road andstation was done by and under the supervision of thegeneral manager, R. Semmes. The building of over-head lines and installing the electrical plant and startingsame was done under the direction of J. F. McAviney,electrician and engineer for the road. Nearly all of the the bay. The winters are simply charming, and are likefar advanced spring in climates less favored. In fact, atthis season of the jear Mobile is a veritable flower gar-den, and to the wearj traveler from beyond Mason andDixons line, who have been chilled to the marrow by thewintry blasts of the north, it is a Garden of Eden.
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