. The Street railway journal . wires, but a peculiarity ofthe construction is the stringing of a single guard wire about 2 the trolley line. This guard wire was put up with theoriginal construction and has given good service in preventingtelegraph and telephone wires from falling across the trolleywire. The rolling stock consists of forty cars, fifteen closed, twenty-four open and a combination sprinkler and snowplow, most ofwhich were built by the Pullman Company, and equipped witheither Peckham or Diamond trucks. Although these cars areseveral years old, the careful attention that t
. The Street railway journal . wires, but a peculiarity ofthe construction is the stringing of a single guard wire about 2 the trolley line. This guard wire was put up with theoriginal construction and has given good service in preventingtelegraph and telephone wires from falling across the trolleywire. The rolling stock consists of forty cars, fifteen closed, twenty-four open and a combination sprinkler and snowplow, most ofwhich were built by the Pullman Company, and equipped witheither Peckham or Diamond trucks. Although these cars areseveral years old, the careful attention that they have con- December 27, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1007 stantly received has kept them in excellent condition. Thisis one of the principal features of the managements operatingpolicy, great stress being laid upon efficient maintenance. Everyyear the cars are thoroughly overhauled and varnished, andonce a day the brass work, even to the coverings of the con-trollers, is rubbed up. But little repair work is made necessary. THE CASINO AND PIER by this close attention to the apparatus, and a small shop in thecar house is quite sufficient for the master mechanics needs. Apeculiar type of car has been operated for the last two or threeyears with excellent results. The amount of traffic in the old days,when the two rival roads were exerting every effort to attractpassengers to their respective cars, was not sufficient to warrantthe introduction of long cars, butthe comfort of the cross-seat in-duced the Colonial Company toplace this type of seat, made bythe Hale & Kilburn Company,in an 18-ft. car. There are sixseats on a side, and the three carsare probably the only ones ofthis type which are in service. The power station has recentlybeen greatly enlarged in capacityby the placing of two direct-connected units in the engineroom, and the building of an ad-dition to the boiler room. Theformer equipment consisted oftwo iso-hp horizontal tubularboilers and two belt-driven 150-kw We
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