. The street railway review . ere was a great deal of trolley wires were covered with sleet and the rails withfrozen slush, making it difficult to operate the snow working Sunday night the city lines were opened fortraffic and the car made the runs to the early morning trainson Monday. The Hamilton, Grimsby & Beamsville roadwas not opened for traffic until Monday afternoon; this linecarries a great deal of milk to Hamilton and the blockadewas hard on milk users. The Hamilton & Dundas line wasblocked only a short time. The Hamilton Radial ElectricRailway Company
. The street railway review . ere was a great deal of trolley wires were covered with sleet and the rails withfrozen slush, making it difficult to operate the snow working Sunday night the city lines were opened fortraffic and the car made the runs to the early morning trainson Monday. The Hamilton, Grimsby & Beamsville roadwas not opened for traffic until Monday afternoon; this linecarries a great deal of milk to Hamilton and the blockadewas hard on milk users. The Hamilton & Dundas line wasblocked only a short time. The Hamilton Radial ElectricRailway Company difficulty with the frozenslush on the city end of its line; the road outside the citywas easily cleared by means of a rotary plow and duringMonday forenoon cars ran only to the city limits. Chicago. The Chicago Electric Traction Company, better known asthe storage battery road, in the snow fighting it has had todo employed a plow and a sweeper. The plow was madeby the J. G. Brill Company. The dimensions are: length. STORAGE BATTERY ROAD, JANUARY 25. of body, 20 ft.; length from point to point of plows, 31 ft.;height, 12 ft. The weight including batteries is 22 motor equipment consists of two 50-h. p. Walker mo-tors, one to each axle. There are two sets of batteries,which work in parallel; the batteries are 400 ampere-hourcells. The greatest distance which has been made with thismachine without changing batteries is 24 miles. When thesnow does not exceed a depth of 2 ft. the plow handles it
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