. The Street railway journal . ngine cin-ders and ballasted with stone. The overhead construction is carried on round chest-nut poles thirty feet in length. The trolley wire is No. oB. & S. gauge, hard drawn copper, and the feed wire isNo. o triple braided, weatherproof. All the line appli-ances are of the General Electric type. The motor cars operated by the company are thirty-four in number, fifteen belonging to the Altoona &Logan Valley Railway Company and nineteen to the CityPassenger Railway Company. The trail cars, of whichthere are fourteen, are divided, eight and six respectively,betwe
. The Street railway journal . ngine cin-ders and ballasted with stone. The overhead construction is carried on round chest-nut poles thirty feet in length. The trolley wire is No. oB. & S. gauge, hard drawn copper, and the feed wire isNo. o triple braided, weatherproof. All the line appli-ances are of the General Electric type. The motor cars operated by the company are thirty-four in number, fifteen belonging to the Altoona &Logan Valley Railway Company and nineteen to the CityPassenger Railway Company. The trail cars, of whichthere are fourteen, are divided, eight and six respectively,between the two companies. The gauge is five feet threeinches. Both motormen and conductors are paid twelveand a half cents per hour. The cars are mounted onBrill rigid, No. 21 trucks. The motor equipment is theEdison sixty horse power, and the Westinghouse fifty horsepower type. The interior furnishing of the cars is verytasteful, the seats being of mahogany covered with Wiltoncarpet. Lewis & Fowler registers are March, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. i57 The cars are heated by both stoves and electric heat-ers, the Consolidated Car Heating Companys apparatusbeing employed in the latter case. The company buysits wheels of the Lobdell Car Wheel Company and hasadopted a thirty-three inch wheel with a two and a halfinch tread. The rolling stock of the company also in-cludes some snow plows supplied by the Brooklyn Rail-way Supply Company, of Stamford, Conn. In its machine shop the company has installed a largelathe, vices, block and fall, etc., for making all ordinaryrepairs. Two views of attractions established by the companyfor stimulating traffic on the road are given in the ovalsin the engraving. These are views of Lakemont Park be-tween Altoona and Hollidaysburg owned by the company,
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