. The street railway review . car which is closed. Theyare all 37 feet over all and the open cars have twelveseats. They are Pullman build mounted on Brill maxi-mum traction trucks. The motor equipment consists oftwo 50-horse-power Walker motors to each car. TheWalker company has been devoting special attention tomotors of this class for interurban service, and the resultsin this case are very satisfactory. The power plant con-tains a 250-horse-power AUis Corliss engine and a 150-kilowatt Walker generator and switchboard apparatusThe trolley line is divided into three sections, each fedseparat
. The street railway review . car which is closed. Theyare all 37 feet over all and the open cars have twelveseats. They are Pullman build mounted on Brill maxi-mum traction trucks. The motor equipment consists oftwo 50-horse-power Walker motors to each car. TheWalker company has been devoting special attention tomotors of this class for interurban service, and the resultsin this case are very satisfactory. The power plant con-tains a 250-horse-power AUis Corliss engine and a 150-kilowatt Walker generator and switchboard apparatusThe trolley line is divided into three sections, each fedseparately. The profile of the road as furnished us by WilliamPowrie, the engineer, shows that from Waukesha aclimb is made of 140 feet in the first three miles and adescent of about 90 feet in the last three. The heaviestgrade is per cent. The deepest cut is 7 feet and thegreatest fill 7 feet. Outside of the city limits of Wauke-sha there are no curves of more than 6 degrees, andwhen not too heavily loaded or when running down. WALKER GENERATOR AND SWITCH BOARD. grade the cars make 40 miles an hour around them. Atthe crossing of the Fox river in Waukesha a plate girderbridge 50 feet long was erected. At the C. M. & St. crossing interlocking home and distant sema-phore signals were put in so that trains on neither roadstop unless compelled to by the signals. A. M. Jones, president, who is well known under thefamiliar name of Long Jones, entertained a party ofChicago men at the time of the dedication, as did also thecontractors, C. E. Loss & Company. The operation ofthe road is under the charge of C. L. Jones, formerly ofthe Milwaukee Street Railway. ^ti^lJ^aiiAv:a^5^Vlc^ 397
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