. The street railway review . ILDING IS NEAR THE TOWER AT THE LEFT. Tacoma. An express milk train operating between the two terminalcities, handles about 5,000 gallons of milk daily. There are two freight trains each way between the terminal carload freight is handled at night and the express matter ishandled during the day. The freight equipment consists of 2 freightlocomotives; 2 express cars each equipped with four GE-66 motorsand type-M multiple-unit control; 65 flat cars, 25 coal hoppers, 15box cars, 14 gondolas and 5 refrigerator cars. All the freight carsare M. C. B. standard
. The street railway review . ILDING IS NEAR THE TOWER AT THE LEFT. Tacoma. An express milk train operating between the two terminalcities, handles about 5,000 gallons of milk daily. There are two freight trains each way between the terminal carload freight is handled at night and the express matter ishandled during the day. The freight equipment consists of 2 freightlocomotives; 2 express cars each equipped with four GE-66 motorsand type-M multiple-unit control; 65 flat cars, 25 coal hoppers, 15box cars, 14 gondolas and 5 refrigerator cars. All the freight carsare M. C. B. standard with brakes hung from the trucks andare equipped with automatic air and tower couplers, thus permit-tins the cars to be interchanged with the steam lines. Such aninterchange of traffic brings to the electric road many carload ship-ments which are distributed to points on its lines. One operatingfeature of importance to the merchants and business men of Seattleand Tacoma is the interchange of traffic between the Seattle Elec-. EAGGAGE AND EXPRESS MOTOR CAR WITTT TRAILERS. trie lines in Seattle and the Tacoma Railway & Power in Tacoma. As the tracks of the three companies are ofstandard gage, cars can be switched to any point where the citysystems have sidings and yard facilities for handling carload ship-ments. System of operating department is conducted upon about the samelines as those of single-track, steam railways and has for its codethe standard rules and regulations, formulated by the General Super- connecting but two cities. In answer to this it may be sta*»d thatit has 44 miles of single track, 67 first-class passenger trains a day,to say nothing of specials, freights, work and express trains and isoperating at a speed of from 45 to 60 miles per hour; there are 23stations which are not regular meeting points, but which are usedto assist trains falling late, and irregular trains, in making up cannot be done except by telegraph or
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