. The street railway review . will have four axles to each motordriven. Current will be taken from a third rail laid on the sameties as the track rail; the plans contemplate placing the third railin different positions relative to the track rails and therefore thelocomotives will have three contact shoes at each end. The locomo-tives are to have two controllers and will not be turned at thetermini. l]cii. 15, lycK). I STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. Iction at Balavia, a city of al)ont inliab-ilants, sitnated on tlie norlli coast of the island o( Java, This sys-tem may properly be called a subu
. The street railway review . will have four axles to each motordriven. Current will be taken from a third rail laid on the sameties as the track rail; the plans contemplate placing the third railin different positions relative to the track rails and therefore thelocomotives will have three contact shoes at each end. The locomo-tives are to have two controllers and will not be turned at thetermini. l]cii. 15, lycK). I STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. Iction at Balavia, a city of al)ont inliab-ilants, sitnated on tlie norlli coast of the island o( Java, This sys-tem may properly be called a suburban road, as it is constructed fora considerable distance throuKh ripen stretches of country andfor a portion of the route on private riKlit of way. The construc-tion work would do credit to an American town and the service , a five minute schedule being (d)served on market days. I-Kl. 1 Al^RANGlCMENT Ot lUIILDINdS. and a ten-minute headway on other days. The cars often reacha speed of 15K niiles an hour and average from 7 to 10 miles. Owing to the climatic and social conditions the work of install-ing the system was necessarily slow and attended with exceptionaldifllculties. Native Malay labor was relied upon almost exclu-sively and most of the foremen were educated natives. The trans-portation of heavy boiler and engine sections was particularlydifficult and at times even dangerous. As an example of the pecu-liarities of the help employed it is stated that before each trolley
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