. Electric railway journal . nds Pounds Body, including conduit, piping and equipment hangers. 22,700 13,500 Electrical equipment 14,400 4,750 Air brake equipment 1,400 850 2-arch bar type trucks 13,600 6,000 Total weight 52,000 25,100 TABLE II—DATA REGARDING THE NEW CARS Seating capacity Length over all 40 ft. 6 m. Height—rail to top of trolley base 11 ft. 3 in. Extreme width 8 ft. 3 in. Height—rail to step 16 Height—step to platform floor 12 in. Width of aisle 22 in. Width of seat 38 in. Length of platforms 4 ft. 7 in. Width of door openings 30 in. Trucks Cincinnati Car Company arch bar type
. Electric railway journal . nds Pounds Body, including conduit, piping and equipment hangers. 22,700 13,500 Electrical equipment 14,400 4,750 Air brake equipment 1,400 850 2-arch bar type trucks 13,600 6,000 Total weight 52,000 25,100 TABLE II—DATA REGARDING THE NEW CARS Seating capacity Length over all 40 ft. 6 m. Height—rail to top of trolley base 11 ft. 3 in. Extreme width 8 ft. 3 in. Height—rail to step 16 Height—step to platform floor 12 in. Width of aisle 22 in. Width of seat 38 in. Length of platforms 4 ft. 7 in. Width of door openings 30 in. Trucks Cincinnati Car Company arch bar type. Truck centers 20 ft. 6 in. Wheel base 5 tt. 8 in. Size of wheel 24 in. Material of wheel Steel Type of motors 4-GE-258 C 25-hp. Control Double-end K-12 Lighting 11 GE combination shade holders and fixtures—Holophane shadesdown center of car. Heaters 16 Consolidated No. 199 0 foot rest heaters with Gold thermostaticcontrol. Fare collection devices Ohmer fare registers. Entrance and exit Rear entrance—front INTERIOR OF FERNRANK AUTOMATIC SUBSTATION LOOKING TOWARDALTERNATING CURRENT END OF ROTARY CONVERTER with a sliding-scale rate for actual energy consumed,depending upon the amount used. Power is delivered atthe substations on the high-tension side and measured byprintometers with watt-hour meters. This contract enabled the company to secure the fullbenefit of the reduction in energy consimied, and it alsoenabled them to dispose of their old boilers, engines andgenerators. An order was also placed with the General Electric Com-pany for two 200-kw. automatically operated were designed to receive 33,000-volt, 3-pliase, 60-cycle power, and deliever 600-volt, direct-current No. 1 was located at a point approximately 6miles from the eastern terminus, and substation No. 2 waslocated at a point approximately 8 miles from Aurora. Both substations are entirely automatic in their oper-ation and both are equipped with time clocks, shu
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