. The Street railway journal . ted. Finally, the simplicity and lessened cost of uniform coloringconunends itself to the medium-sized and smaller roads, whilefor interurban service there seems to be practically no need ofany diversity in coloring on the lines of the same a road develops to the point, however, where the with-drawal of from 5 per cent to 15 per cent of its cars from ser-vice causes no very serious gaps in the service of any particularline, to speak in the rough, it may then in some special casesbe an advantage to adopt route colors on the rolling unif
. The Street railway journal . ted. Finally, the simplicity and lessened cost of uniform coloringconunends itself to the medium-sized and smaller roads, whilefor interurban service there seems to be practically no need ofany diversity in coloring on the lines of the same a road develops to the point, however, where the with-drawal of from 5 per cent to 15 per cent of its cars from ser-vice causes no very serious gaps in the service of any particularline, to speak in the rough, it may then in some special casesbe an advantage to adopt route colors on the rolling uniform coloring is adopted, only adjustalilc or re-niovable signs should be eniplovcd upon the cars, 934 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 21. THE SYSTEM OF THE BLOOMINGTON & NORMAL RAIL-WAY, ELECTRIC & HEATING COMPANY BY C. H. ROBINSON A characteristic example of expansion along other lines bya public service corporation originally organized for railwayoperation only is afforded by the Bloomington & Normal Rail-. FULL CONVERTIBLE CAR BODY MOUNTED ON AN TRUCK the Chicago & Alton Railroad at Normal to a Hour mill atBloomington. This freight business was soon discontinued,but the passenger service has been carried on continuouslythrough all the changes in motive power. The steam dummyengines were operated a few years, but then were displaced byanimal traction, which was in use up to 1890. In that yearthe Daft system was installed, but was abandoned two yearslater in favor of Westinghouse and Short apparatus. The sub-stituted equipment gave good service up to 1902, in which yearthe belted units in the power house were replaced by the direct-
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