. Electric railway journal . The hook exerts a down-ward and rearward pressure that holds the tonguefirmly to its bearings and insures a close fit. Thetongue fastenings are readily accessible and can beassembled and tightened in less than one minute. The Toronto Suburban Street Railway has awardeda contract to the Canadian General Electric Companyfor substation apparatus and car equipments, for thenew line from Toronto to Berlin. This will be thefirst interurban line in Canada to operate at 1500 The catenary type of overhead construction willbe used, and there will be three substatio
. Electric railway journal . The hook exerts a down-ward and rearward pressure that holds the tonguefirmly to its bearings and insures a close fit. Thetongue fastenings are readily accessible and can beassembled and tightened in less than one minute. The Toronto Suburban Street Railway has awardeda contract to the Canadian General Electric Companyfor substation apparatus and car equipments, for thenew line from Toronto to Berlin. This will be thefirst interurban line in Canada to operate at 1500 The catenary type of overhead construction willbe used, and there will be three substations; 1500-voltrotary converters, each of 500-kw capacity, will be That the introduction of low-level cars in the UnitedStates is attracting the attention of European electricrailway managers is demonstrated by the accompanyingillustrations which show a center-entrance, steplesstrailer car built by the Maschinen Fabrik Augsburg-Niirnberg for the Nuremberg-Further railway. The well of this car is furnished with a dividing rail. Interior View of Stepless Trailer for incoming and outgoing passengers, while the maincompartments are equipped on each side with a six-pas-senger longitudinal bench which does not extend to theends in order to leave room for seven standing pas-sengers. The normal capacity is twenty-four seatedand twenty-eight standing passengers, but the car cancarry a maximum of sixty passengers. The over-alllength of this trailer is 32 ft., the length of the ft. and the distance between the pavement and the
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