. The Street railway journal . G. E. 800 motors; ten areopen cars with the same equipment and five are closed carsequipped with two G. E. 57 motors. The latter cars are in-tended to act as locomotives in driving ordinary freightcars within the city, where steam locomotives are not per-mitted. The cars carry thirty-eight passengers each, and;;.re equipped with electric brakes and are mounted on Brilltrucks. The company also possesses a number of trail carswhich are used on days of special traffic, but are not em-ployed under ordinary operating conditions. These carsare also equipped with electr
. The Street railway journal . G. E. 800 motors; ten areopen cars with the same equipment and five are closed carsequipped with two G. E. 57 motors. The latter cars are in-tended to act as locomotives in driving ordinary freightcars within the city, where steam locomotives are not per-mitted. The cars carry thirty-eight passengers each, and;;.re equipped with electric brakes and are mounted on Brilltrucks. The company also possesses a number of trail carswhich are used on days of special traffic, but are not em-ployed under ordinary operating conditions. These carsare also equipped with electric brakes. 530 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XV. No. 8. Electric Railroading in Corea Some of the difficulties of operating electric railroads inoriental countries are almost as great as those experiencedin this country, and occasionally a mob will take offenseat the management of the railroad, and destroy nearly asmuch property in the same length of time as a more civil-ized mob provided with improved instruments of destruc-. RUINS OF CAR IN COREA tion can accomplish in the same length of time in this part of the globe. An incident of this kind occurred on May 26 at Seoul,Corea, where an electric railway has been in operationfor a few months. It was the first road of its kind in thecountry, and at the start the natives took kindly to it, theopening celebration continuing practically for a for the railway company, however, soonafter the opening of the line a drought occurred, whichthreatened the failure of the rice crop. As the most likelycause, the natives imagined that rain was cut off by theelectric wires, and to them the most obvious way to obtainthe needed showers was to remove the objectionable they proceeded to do by tearing down the trolleywires and burning the cars. The result of a few hours ofthis pastime is shown in the accompanying engraving,where the only thing left of the cars was the J. G. Brilltrucks on which they were mounted, and
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