. The Street railway journal . End type of bond. The single pole overhead construction is illustrated in the engraving. Thisform is used inmany places, but in thecenter of the city spanwires are stretched frompoles at the curbs. The company is op-erating at the presenttime fifteen nine-benchopen cars of the J. Companys cars are 29 ft. 8|ins. in length over thecrown pieces, and havea seating capacity offorty-five. They aremounted on Brill 21-Etrucks, having a wheelbase of 8 ft., and wheels30 ins. in diameter. Thecars are finished incherry and ash, with aceiling of three-plybirc
. The Street railway journal . End type of bond. The single pole overhead construction is illustrated in the engraving. Thisform is used inmany places, but in thecenter of the city spanwires are stretched frompoles at the curbs. The company is op-erating at the presenttime fifteen nine-benchopen cars of the J. Companys cars are 29 ft. 8|ins. in length over thecrown pieces, and havea seating capacity offorty-five. They aremounted on Brill 21-Etrucks, having a wheelbase of 8 ft., and wheels30 ins. in diameter. Thecars are finished incherry and ash, with aceiling of three-plybirch veneer, neatlydecorated. The cars areequipped with the Nealelectric headlights andthe Millen illuminated signs. Orders have just been placedwith the St. Louis Car Company for fifty additional cars,to be of the same general design and finish as those now inuse, and fitted with the same style trucks. The motor equipments consist of General Electric Type58 motors. These are rated at 37 hp each, and there aretwo motors per jiff L -V4 8 Rubber Gasket i STREET SCENE IN SAO PAULO—LAYING TRACK The whole surface is covered over to a distance of 2 ft. out-side of each rail with a 4-in. layer of concrete, and to 5 the tread of the rail to allow for paving blocks. TheT rails are 6 ins. high, weighing 62 lbs. per yard. Therails are placed on wooden ties, spaced 2 ft. apart, withfour brackets to each tie, through which the rails arespiked to the ties, the whole lying on a layer of concrete4 ins. thick. On part of the line steel ties are used in place of the K Platey I B St/eet Ry. Journal DETAILS OF EXPANSION JOINT IN MAIN FEEDER TUBE The electric light system will consist of an undergroundinstallation for the center of the city, of a capacity sufficientto supply 10,000 16-cp incandescent lamps and 200 arclamps. The remainder of the city and the suburbs will besupplied by an overhead system completely covering theentire territory, so that the current can be supplied in an
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