. The street railway review . able sections oftrack not unlike a transfer table are used to pass the trains. The weight of the car and engine complete withthirty-five persons is 22,960, including 1,763 pounds ofwater and 770 pounds of coal. A SCORCH AT SHEBOYGAN. THE City Railway at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, werestill storing part of their car equipment in the oldcar shed, and would have moved into the newcar house in only a day or two more, when the shed wasburned with its contents. The company lose six of theirbest cars, and aside from the loss in traffic while new carsare being built, the loss
. The street railway review . able sections oftrack not unlike a transfer table are used to pass the trains. The weight of the car and engine complete withthirty-five persons is 22,960, including 1,763 pounds ofwater and 770 pounds of coal. A SCORCH AT SHEBOYGAN. THE City Railway at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, werestill storing part of their car equipment in the oldcar shed, and would have moved into the newcar house in only a day or two more, when the shed wasburned with its contents. The company lose six of theirbest cars, and aside from the loss in traffic while new carsare being built, the loss on the cars is total, as the insur-ance had expired only a few days previous, and no onethought that the risk of the intervening week, at theexpiration of which time the cars would have beencovered as a part of the new building, was worth provid-ing against. The shed caught from an adjoining liverystable, and the case is one of those odd coincidences in thelight of which we are apt to compare our foresightwith aftersight. 627. jltEIEST RAILWAY IN IHE WUKLU —RACK KAILW AY, Ml, IlLATLs, SWITZERLAND. 628 THE PHILADELPHIA TROLLEY. THE Philadelphia trolley is another new candidatefor raiKva} fa\or, and has been designed with aview to meeting the largest possible number ofwants in the hard service of railway work. It is extremelysimple, having but nine parts, and these are of substantialmechanical construction; light, yet durable. A strikingfeature is the ease and rapidit}* with which it can be dis-
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