. The street railway review . .systenT. The miscellaneous equipment includes two McGuire snow sweep-ers, five snow plows and a Trenton trolley wagon. This wagonwith its team is kept in the emergency station shown in the frontview of the offices and barns. Whenever emergency calls are made,the wagon is manned by employes of the shops who are also ex-perienced linemen. 790 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW [Vol. XV, No. ii. The regular schedules require the operation of 2$ cars over nineseparate routes. With this equipment the outlying lines are givenschedules with headways varying from 7 to 15 minutes. On
. The street railway review . .systenT. The miscellaneous equipment includes two McGuire snow sweep-ers, five snow plows and a Trenton trolley wagon. This wagonwith its team is kept in the emergency station shown in the frontview of the offices and barns. Whenever emergency calls are made,the wagon is manned by employes of the shops who are also ex-perienced linemen. 790 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW [Vol. XV, No. ii. The regular schedules require the operation of 2$ cars over nineseparate routes. With this equipment the outlying lines are givenschedules with headways varying from 7 to 15 minutes. On KansasAve., the main thoroughfare, the headway is two minutes. Thereare 90 trainmen and 30 other railway employes. At the intersection of Eighth St. and Kansas .\ve. is a trolleywaiting and transfer station built in the parking between the side-walk and curb. All the cars of the system with the exception ofone division, pass this point, and as a large percentage of transfersare made here, the building serves a useful an up-to-date equipment of boilers, engines, generators, storagebattery, etc. The present boiler equipment consists of four 365 h. p. and four300-h. p. Babcock & Wiicox boilers set in pairs. This equipment ishoused in a building 75 x 80 ft. in horizontal dimensions. Adjacentto the boiler house arc two rooms each covering a ground area 30 x50 ft. In one of these is a water treating plant. In the other,which is adjacent to both the boiler house and the engine room, isa machine shop for general repairs. The water treating plant consists of Iwo tanks of 6o,, each so cmmected by piping with tlie boiler feed system
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