. The Street railway journal . e it isundesirable to cut the floor. It is built of steel through-out; the cross rails are of spring steel about fifteen feetin length, and slightly convex in shape. The ends ofthese rails are tapered, and designed topass over and in line with the car housetracks. As the car is moved on the tablethe cross or spring rails are presseddown by the weight of the car a shortdistance which is allowed for clearance,and the ends rest on the t-ack railsforming a solid connection. Roller bearings are provided for The Baden & St. Louis Railroad, Cass Avenue &Fair Grounds Rai
. The Street railway journal . e it isundesirable to cut the floor. It is built of steel through-out; the cross rails are of spring steel about fifteen feetin length, and slightly convex in shape. The ends ofthese rails are tapered, and designed topass over and in line with the car housetracks. As the car is moved on the tablethe cross or spring rails are presseddown by the weight of the car a shortdistance which is allowed for clearance,and the ends rest on the t-ack railsforming a solid connection. Roller bearings are provided for The Baden & St. Louis Railroad, Cass Avenue &Fair Grounds Railway, and Lindell Railway are the onlycompanies which show an increase over last year in pas-sengers carried, amounting in the aggregate to 1,388, this number 737,169 were carried by the Lindell Com-pany, which is in part explained by the fact that theirnew Compton Heights line was recently put into opera-tion. The decrease in the total is, of course, due to thehard times. ■ ■ 9 > ■ Cushioned Car FLUSH TRANSFER TABLE—UNION RAILWAY, NEW YORK ease in movement. The table is mounted on T rails,but travels so close to the floor that it can be operatedon ordinary center bearing rails. An endless differential chain arrangement is pro-vided for moving the table, and one man can easily andquickly shift a motor car to any part of the house, andreadily stop the table at the exact point required, thusavoiding the backing and filling so common in the oldstyle of transfer tables. This table avoids the buildingof expensive pits. All the tracks being flush, cars can berun in and out and across the transfer table tracks with-out using the transfer table. This gives more storageroom, and in case of fire the saving of rolling stock makesit most desirable. With the use of this table insurance isreduced. These tables are in use at Scranton TractionCompany, Scranton, Pa.; Union Railway Company, NewYork, N. Y.; North Shore Traction Company, Lynn,Mass.; Brooklyn City Railway
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