. The Street railway journal . FIG- 2.—INTERIOR OF CAR ON BROOKLYN, BATH & WEST END RAILWAY. is used for the regular run and the other for switchingpurposes at the Brooklyn end of the line. Whistles oper-ated by air from the brake reservoir are employed insteadof gongs. Trains are operated, consisting of a motor car andthree open trail cars. The trail cars were built by theWason Manufacturing Company, of Brightwood, Mass. They are forty-five feetin length, and havea seating capacity of. eighty passengers. First Trip of Brook=lyns Postal Car. 45 FT. CAR ON BROOKLYN, BATH & WEST END RAILWAY—BROO
. The Street railway journal . FIG- 2.—INTERIOR OF CAR ON BROOKLYN, BATH & WEST END RAILWAY. is used for the regular run and the other for switchingpurposes at the Brooklyn end of the line. Whistles oper-ated by air from the brake reservoir are employed insteadof gongs. Trains are operated, consisting of a motor car andthree open trail cars. The trail cars were built by theWason Manufacturing Company, of Brightwood, Mass. They are forty-five feetin length, and havea seating capacity of. eighty passengers. First Trip of Brook=lyns Postal Car. 45 FT. CAR ON BROOKLYN, BATH & WEST END RAILWAY—BROOKLYN, N. Y The cars are provided with the New York air brakesystem, the air being stored in the reservoirs by means ofan automatic air pump, with cylinder dimensions 5X9 ins.,and operated by a stationary motor. The motor andair pump are controlled by a pneumatic rheostat, whichautomatically cuts out the motor when the air pressurereaches sixty pounds and starts the motor again, when th<jpressure falls below that point. The first trip of theelectric postal car of theAtlantic Avenue RailwayCompany, described inour last issue, was madeAugust 12. The carcarried the postmaster ofBrooklyn and other post-al officials of that city,Superintendent Newkirk,Treasurer Frick andEngineer Silliman of theAtlantic Avenue RailwayCompany, and other in-vited guests. C. C. Overton, who was one of theparty, on entering thecar, mailed a letter tohimself for Bath was the first carriedo
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