. Electric railway journal . Storage Battery Car with Special Light-Weight Truck Since Oct. 9, 1912, the Lewisburg, Milton & Wat- ■ sontown Pasenger Railway Company, Milton, Pa., has 1 used a combination passenger and baggage car which B was ordered as an addition to a car from another manu- M facturer which had been in use since the summer of J 1911. This installation presents an interesting example S ^lilllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllll 1 628 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL Vol. XLII, No. 14. I of the increase in traffic which can be obtained on arailroad branch by substituting electricity for ste
. Electric railway journal . Storage Battery Car with Special Light-Weight Truck Since Oct. 9, 1912, the Lewisburg, Milton & Wat- ■ sontown Pasenger Railway Company, Milton, Pa., has 1 used a combination passenger and baggage car which B was ordered as an addition to a car from another manu- M facturer which had been in use since the summer of J 1911. This installation presents an interesting example S ^lilllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllll 1 628 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL Vol. XLII, No. 14. I of the increase in traffic which can be obtained on arailroad branch by substituting electricity for this company acquired trackage rights fromthe Pennsylvania Railroad from Montandon to Lewis-burg, a distance of approximately 1 J/£ miles, in order. Storage Battery Car for High-Speed Service to connect Lewisburg by overhead trolley with Miltonand Watsontown. Later the right was acquired tooperate on 9 miles of track between Lewisburg andMifflinburg. A storage battery car was chosen for thisextension as the traffic did not justify an overhead cars are operated between steam trains on a schedulepublished in the Pennsylvania Railroad timetable andtheir movements are subject to orders from the signal menof the steam road. The later car is 39 ft. 8 in. over all,with a thirty-two-passenger compartment 22 ft. 6 in. longand an 1 1 -ft. 6-in. baggage compartment provided withfolding seats for eight smokers. Its total weight is asfollows: car body, less electrical equipment, 10,700 lb.;electrical equipment, including battery of nearly 8000
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