. The Street railway journal . that with the opening of the new Logansport-Lafay-ette extension of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Trac-tion Company, when limited service will be established be-tween Fort Wayne and Lafayette, the limited line betweenFort Wayne and Indianapolis would be discarded. Orig-inal plans of the two companies did not contemplate theretention of the Fort Wayne-Indianapolis limiteds. It wasthe intention to have the Fort Wayne-Lafayette cars merelyconnect at Peru with Indianapolis cars between Peru andIndianapolis. The traffic on the limited cars has grown tosuch an extent
. The Street railway journal . that with the opening of the new Logansport-Lafay-ette extension of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Trac-tion Company, when limited service will be established be-tween Fort Wayne and Lafayette, the limited line betweenFort Wayne and Indianapolis would be discarded. Orig-inal plans of the two companies did not contemplate theretention of the Fort Wayne-Indianapolis limiteds. It wasthe intention to have the Fort Wayne-Lafayette cars merelyconnect at Peru with Indianapolis cars between Peru andIndianapolis. The traffic on the limited cars has grown tosuch an extent that it was deemed unwise to discontinue it. lOIO STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 23. STEEL PASSENGER CARS FOR THE PENNSYLVANIARAILROAD The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has ordered theconstruction this year of 200 all-steel cars for its passengerequipment. Great interest attaches to these cars from thefact that the company was one of the pioneers in a designof steel cars. When steel cars were proposed for the New. END FRAMING OF STEEL MAIL CAR, SHOWING TYPE OF CENTER SILL USED IN PASSENGER COACH York Subway none of the car builders in the country wasin a position to furnish them, so that the first steel carfor the subway was built in 1902 at the Altoona shops ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The company hasgone further in the direction of the use of steel than hashitherto been attempted, and the order now placed is thelargest yet any steam road for this class of equip-ment. The company, as will be described later, is con-structing steel cars both for suljurlian use, where provisionis made for the application of motors, and also for throughpassenger service. The Pennsylvanias policy in this re-spect is the result of a long period of inquiry and experi-ment in which the late President Cassatt took an activepart. After several cars had been built the president ap-pointed a committee of motive .power officials to make athorough report on the desi
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