. The Street railway journal . the building. The lighting will be accomplished bythirty-five Meridian lamps placed in the ceiling. The zoo at Norumbega contains the finest collection of animalsin New England, and several valuable specimens will be addedthis season. Four new cages are being built for the accommo-dation of some of the new animals. These cages will be ofnovel design and will have solid concrete floors, which can bereadily flushed and cleaned. ^♦^ « ^ LAMP TRUCK ON BOSTON & WORCESTER At the shops of the Boston & Worcester Street RailwayCompany some confusion and inconvenience were
. The Street railway journal . the building. The lighting will be accomplished bythirty-five Meridian lamps placed in the ceiling. The zoo at Norumbega contains the finest collection of animalsin New England, and several valuable specimens will be addedthis season. Four new cages are being built for the accommo-dation of some of the new animals. These cages will be ofnovel design and will have solid concrete floors, which can bereadily flushed and cleaned. ^♦^ « ^ LAMP TRUCK ON BOSTON & WORCESTER At the shops of the Boston & Worcester Street RailwayCompany some confusion and inconvenience were formerly ex-perienced in handling the headlights, tail lights and handlanterns used on the cars. The outfit of lamps required by eachcrew consists of a headlight, two tail lights and two handlanterns, and the task of carrying these back and forth betweenthe shops and the tracks and having them ready for the carson the early evening runs was quite an item. To facilitate this work the lamp truck or wagon shown hero^. LAMP TRUCK, BOSTON & WORCESTER with was devised. As will be seen, it consists of a framemounted on a low hand truck having flat-tired wheels. On thefloor of the truck is room for twelve headlights, arranged intwo rows of six each. Above these is a tier for twenty-two taillights, and above this a third tier from which are hung elevenpairs of hand lanterns. The truck is ft. long, 22 ins. wide at the floor, and stands6 ft. high from the ground to the top piece. The uprights aremade of i^-in. x 3-in. stuff; the top cross piece is ins. x7J/2 ins., and the middle cross piece is i^i ins. x 4 ins. Theframe is reinforced near the base with strips of }iin. x ij^ iron. The wagon was built at the companys shops at acost of about $25. When the cars come in from the last trips at night the crewshang their various lamps on the truck. Some time duringthe day the truck is drawn to a convenient corner of the yards,where the lamps are cleaned and filled, and the wagon is t
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