. The Street railway journal . ram furnished. end sills measuring ^l/2 ins. x 8 ins.; the window system per-mits of a seat 36 ins. long and an aisle space of 22 ins. Theinside finish of the car is of mahogany. The Brill No. 21-Etruck on which the car body is mounted has a wheel base of7 ft. 6 ins. RAILWAY ACTIVITY IN CHATTANOOGA, TENN. The Chattanooga Railways Company, which is a consol-idation of the Rapid Transit Company and the ChattanoogaElectric Railway Company, is now actively engaged in put-ting its road in first-class shape and planning extensions toits system. The entire work involves
. The Street railway journal . ram furnished. end sills measuring ^l/2 ins. x 8 ins.; the window system per-mits of a seat 36 ins. long and an aisle space of 22 ins. Theinside finish of the car is of mahogany. The Brill No. 21-Etruck on which the car body is mounted has a wheel base of7 ft. 6 ins. RAILWAY ACTIVITY IN CHATTANOOGA, TENN. The Chattanooga Railways Company, which is a consol-idation of the Rapid Transit Company and the ChattanoogaElectric Railway Company, is now actively engaged in put-ting its road in first-class shape and planning extensions toits system. The entire work involves an expenditure of atleast a million and a half dollars. The Market Street, Mis-sion Ride, Chickamauga Park and Oak Street lines were re-laid last summer with new rails and ties embedded in con-crete; a 7-in., 80-lb. rail, laid in concrete, is now standardwith the company, and all the lines are being thus equippedas rapidly as possible. The same amount of activity hasmarked the companys building operations, car shops costing. PROGRESS OF OPERATIONS ON VARIOUS PENNSYLVANIABORES Operations were recently begun in tunnel A of the Penn-sylvania extension under the East River. This tube is theleast advanced of the four, and the men are just now be-ginning to get out of rock into sand and gravel. This is thenorthernmost of the tubes. Tunnel B has gone out furthestinto the river bottom from the Manhattan shore, the shieldhaving progressed 900 ft. from the shaft near First C is about 600 ft. out from the shaft, and tunnel Dnearly 900 ft. Tunnel A is only 150 ft. long. The company has adopted a number of devices to protectthe men from the ill effects of compressed air. The latest ofthese is an independent supply of compressed air for everylock. In case of fire or accident in a locknearer the shore than the one in whichthe men are working, the men will con-tinue to receive their air as thoughnothing had happened. SINGLE-TRUCK, SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR FOR CHATTANOOGA about $85,0
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