. Electric railway journal . Providence Express and Freight—Electric Freight Locomo-tive New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and businessand industrial establishments, including the local electriclighting company, a machinery house, bakery, coal pocket,grain dealers, oil wholesalers and produce merchants, ishandled by the Rhode Island Companys electric loco-motives over a so-called interchange loop or belt-linetrack of standard railroad construction which traverses thewholesale and trucking district. All these concerns areserved by spur tracks entering their premises from thestreet, the tr
. Electric railway journal . Providence Express and Freight—Electric Freight Locomo-tive New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and businessand industrial establishments, including the local electriclighting company, a machinery house, bakery, coal pocket,grain dealers, oil wholesalers and produce merchants, ishandled by the Rhode Island Companys electric loco-motives over a so-called interchange loop or belt-linetrack of standard railroad construction which traverses thewholesale and trucking district. All these concerns areserved by spur tracks entering their premises from thestreet, the trolley wire being carried into the property tofacilitate switching. A typical diagonal entrance to awholesalers premises is shown in the accompanying photo-graph. This belt line is operated day and night, and theshifting is accomplished with great speed, the noise and. Providence Express and Freight—Standard Express Car dirt associated with the ordinary steam-driven switch en-gine being absent. The excellent acceleration of the electriclocomotives is an important factor in the speed of thework. Two of the latter are in regular service, the thirdbeing held in reserve. The crew of an electric locomotiveon shifting work includes a motorman, conductor, trolleytender and two brakemen. Coal cars are handled for out- of-town deliveries after midnight. Three times a week anelectric locomotive hauls six carloads of bananas from thesteamship wharf district to wholesale fruit houses. The locomotives weigh 30 tons each and are 27 ft. ioj^ bumpers, with 16-ft. truck centers, an over-all widthof 8 ft. 3 in. and a body length of about 27 ft. The cabis 10 ft. long and is framed between ten posts usually4^4 in- x 4/- ni- U1 section, with the exception of thedoors, whose posts are of 3^4-in. x 5^-in. section. Thelocomotive underframe is composed of four 5^-
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