. The Street railway journal . ny by the Cana-dian White Company,Ltd., after the designsof the latter companysmechanical engineer,N. H. Rybitzki. Ralph D. Mershon, of New York and Montreal, was consultingengineer for the power equipment, switchboard and therearranged feeder system. jackets of the engine is used to heat the car in brakes are employed and numerous tests at 20 m. p. shown that the car can be stopped in 112 ft. to 115 inconvenience to the passengers. The car is drivenby a 100-hp gasoline engine with six cylinders 8 ins. x 10ins. of the upright type. Ai
. The Street railway journal . ny by the Cana-dian White Company,Ltd., after the designsof the latter companysmechanical engineer,N. H. Rybitzki. Ralph D. Mershon, of New York and Montreal, was consultingengineer for the power equipment, switchboard and therearranged feeder system. jackets of the engine is used to heat the car in brakes are employed and numerous tests at 20 m. p. shown that the car can be stopped in 112 ft. to 115 inconvenience to the passengers. The car is drivenby a 100-hp gasoline engine with six cylinders 8 ins. x 10ins. of the upright type. Air is used for starting. Thecar made its initial trip Sept. 14, 1905, and since Oct. 6,1905, has been in regular service on the line between Kear-ney and Callaway, making one round trip, or 113 miles,daily. Car No. 3 is of the same general design as car No. 2,except that it has a baggage compartment. It is now onregular service on the line of the Southern Pacific Com-pany, making a round trip daily between Houston FEED WATER CONNECTIONS IIOCHELAGA STATION UNION PACIFIC GASOLINE MOTOR CARS The Union Pacific Railroad has issued a pamphlet de-scriptive of the thirteen gasoline motor cars constructed byit for service on its suburban lines. All of them are de-signed for passenger service and twenty-two additionalcars are under construction. Car 1 was an experimentalcar 31 ft. in length, mounted on a single four-wheel truck,with wheels 42 ins. in diameter. The weight of the carwas a trifle over 20 tons. It was turned out of the shopsof the company at Omaha during March, 1905, and onAug. 21, 1905, went into regular daily service betweenKearney and Callaway. Car 2 is an all-steel car mounted on two four-wheeledtrucks. The two driving wheels are 42 ins. in diameter;the wheels on the trailer truck are 33 ins. in car is 55 ft. long, with a seating capacity of fifty-seven,and the total weight is 56,000 lbs. Water from the cylinder Car No. 4 is of the same general
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