. Electric railway journal . system when fully completed will beabout $70,000,000. FUNERAL CAR OF THE LOS ANGELES RAILWAYCOMPANY The Los Angeles Railway Company recently placed inservice a funeral car designed and built in its own car body is placed on one of its standard double trucks,which are arranged for the narrow gage of ft. Itcontains a compartment for the casket placed at rightangles to the length of the car. This compartment isequipped with rollers similar to those of the usual hearse,and is provided with doors at either side of the car. Apassageway opens from this compa
. Electric railway journal . system when fully completed will beabout $70,000,000. FUNERAL CAR OF THE LOS ANGELES RAILWAYCOMPANY The Los Angeles Railway Company recently placed inservice a funeral car designed and built in its own car body is placed on one of its standard double trucks,which are arranged for the narrow gage of ft. Itcontains a compartment for the casket placed at rightangles to the length of the car. This compartment isequipped with rollers similar to those of the usual hearse,and is provided with doors at either side of the car. Apassageway opens from this compartment into the passengercompartment, from which the casket with its covering offlowers can be viewed. The passenger compartment, whichis designed to seat 24 persons on wickerware chairs, canbe subdivided at any desired point by means of heavy cur-tains to separate the immediate relatives from the othermourners. Although no attempt has been made at drapery, the in-terior of the car has a neat chapel appearance, as the arched. Funeral Car of Los Angeles Railway Company windows and ventilators are built of stained glass, and ap-propriate colors are used for the silk curtains. The ex-terior of the car has been given a gray color with goldtrimmings, thus proclaiming the mission of the car in amodest way. The car is equipped with two 50-hp Westinghouse mo-tors, for the operation of which there is an isolated motor-mans cab at either platform. When in service, the car iscompletely enclosed from front to rear, without any exposedplatform or passenger step. It was designed by E. , master car builder of the Los Angeles RailwayCompany, and built under his direction in the companysshops. July 17, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. in INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE OF BREAKAGE OF HIGH-TENSION GLASS INSULATORS* A few years ago an electric railway company in theCentral States built a 30,000-volt transmission line aboutas shown in the accompanying sketch. Sections A-B-C-Fwere six wires, the
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