. The street railway review . wires are 16 feet high ordinarily and 21 feet high at rail-way crossings. CJn the electric lines the overhead wire system is used,the poles for the trolley wires being of wood. The elec-tric rolling stock consists of 26 cars, 16 of which arePullman cars run by two 15-horse-powcr Sprague motorseach, and ten 28 foot combination (open and shutj cars,. PLAN OF CURVE—CABLE LINE—TACOMA RAILWAY AND MOTOR COMPANY. Sextons Manufacturing Company, of Erie, Pa., and oneof 150-horse-power made by Geo. H. Corliss, of Provi-dence, R. I. The belting used is 54 inch perforated,mad
. The street railway review . wires are 16 feet high ordinarily and 21 feet high at rail-way crossings. CJn the electric lines the overhead wire system is used,the poles for the trolley wires being of wood. The elec-tric rolling stock consists of 26 cars, 16 of which arePullman cars run by two 15-horse-powcr Sprague motorseach, and ten 28 foot combination (open and shutj cars,. PLAN OF CURVE—CABLE LINE—TACOMA RAILWAY AND MOTOR COMPANY. Sextons Manufacturing Company, of Erie, Pa., and oneof 150-horse-power made by Geo. H. Corliss, of Provi-dence, R. I. The belting used is 54 inch perforated,made by Chas. A. Schieren & Co., of New York, andis giving splendid service. The electric plant consists of compound wound dyna-mos and is the largest west of the Mississippi river. also made by the Pullmans, two equipped with r5-horse-power Edison Motors. The track guage is 3 feet 6inches, with 40 and 45 pound girder rails, which weremade by the Cambria Iron & Steel Manufacturing Com-pany, of Johnstown, Pa. The cable is 10,000 feet in length, has 160 wires in it,and has a diameter of i/ inches.
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