. The Street railway journal . THE AT PINE ISL.\ND PARK seating capacity is 900. The stage is equipped with up-to-date appliances and a motor-driven, 200-amp. direct-currentgenerator is available for stereopticon moving picturesand spot light effects. Running water is provided. An inclined railway up the mountain is owned and oper-ated by the Uncanoonuc Incline Railway & DevelopmentCompany. It is reached by a branch which leaves the Man-chester Companys Gof¥stown line at Shirley Station andextends about 2 milea over wooded and meadow land to thebase of the mountain. The rise of this port
. The Street railway journal . THE AT PINE ISL.\ND PARK seating capacity is 900. The stage is equipped with up-to-date appliances and a motor-driven, 200-amp. direct-currentgenerator is available for stereopticon moving picturesand spot light effects. Running water is provided. An inclined railway up the mountain is owned and oper-ated by the Uncanoonuc Incline Railway & DevelopmentCompany. It is reached by a branch which leaves the Man-chester Companys Gof¥stown line at Shirley Station andextends about 2 milea over wooded and meadow land to thebase of the mountain. The rise of this portion is almostcontinuous. At the base of the mountain passengers aretransferred to the incline proper. The special cars em-. PENNY ARCADE, PINE I.^LANn PARK ployed are equipped to correspond with the grade, whichis 34 per cent. There are two cars, one of which is as-cending while the other is descending. There is only onetrack and a turnout is provided in the middle. In orderto enable the cars to take the special work properly theoutside wheel of each car is provided with two flanges,while the inside wheel is perfectly flat, having no cable passes over a large .sheave at the top of themountain and motive power is supplied by two specialGE-80 motors placed under each car and geared to the wheels. A signaling circuit makes it possil)lc for eithermotorman to signal the other so that the cars at oppositeends of the incline may be started and stopped in wires for this signal circuit are strung beside thetrack at the level of the rail and connection with the caris made by sliding contact. The safety appliances are veryelaborate. A heavy timber 6 in. x 12 in. is laid beside thetrack and bolt
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