. The Street railway journal . which are, on account of circumstances of location, stretched betweenornamental suspension devicesfastened to the sides of thehouses. In the broader streets,the span wires stretch betweentall steel poles set on both sidesof the road. These, as in thatpart of the line farther from theBorse, are almost hidden by thetrees, and only the slender over-head wires above the track canbe seen. The outermost portionof the line, that running intoHorn, is carried on ornamentalside brackets, which are also to agreat extent concealed by thefoliage of the trees. At the Marktplat
. The Street railway journal . which are, on account of circumstances of location, stretched betweenornamental suspension devicesfastened to the sides of thehouses. In the broader streets,the span wires stretch betweentall steel poles set on both sidesof the road. These, as in thatpart of the line farther from theBorse, are almost hidden by thetrees, and only the slender over-head wires above the track canbe seen. The outermost portionof the line, that running intoHorn, is carried on ornamentalside brackets, which are also to agreat extent concealed by thefoliage of the trees. At the Marktplatz all thelines converge. Here the over-head and track construction be-comes full of turnouts andswitches, and is a fine exampleof perfect work in that direc-tion. At the present time the Bre-mer Strassenbahn Gesellschafthas twenty-five motor cars, eighteen of which areoperated on week days and twenty-two on Sundays andholidays. The car bodies of the motor cars are to someextent the same as were used originally in the horse car. FIG. 3.—INTERIOR OF RAILWAY POWER STATION—BREMEN, GERMANY. more difficulty than the discarded horse cars. TheLangenstrasse and the Geeren are, perhaps, the narrow-est streets on record along which electric cars have evertraveled. Another remarkable part of the line is thatrunning from the Logestrasse into the Schiisselkorb,where a curve and a turnout are found together at thecorner of two extremely narrow streets. service, but they have been properly altered and strength-ened to meet the modern requirements. Each car isequipped with one of the well known W. P. 30 type ofThomson-Houston motors, motion being communicated tothe axle through a single reduction gear, enclosed in acasing and running in oil. Control is secured throughrheostatic controllers. The maximum speed in the city March, 1894. J THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. limits has been fixed at from nine to twelve kilometres( to miles) per hour, and on the line nearer Horn,at from twelve to
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