. The Street railway journal . g its ownplant. The entire line from Paterson to Rutherford, adistance of nine miles, is operated from the Patersonstation; thirty-six miles of No. 0000 feed wire has beenput up for the operation of this portion of the road, thefeed wire being arranged in lengths as shown on the ac-companying diagram. The total mileage of the line fromRutherford to Singac is about twenty miles. 9 1 One of the illustrations in the group on page 613shows the car house at Rutherford, of which there is alsoshown a plan view in Fig. 1. This car house was built onlow ground, and about
. The Street railway journal . g its ownplant. The entire line from Paterson to Rutherford, adistance of nine miles, is operated from the Patersonstation; thirty-six miles of No. 0000 feed wire has beenput up for the operation of this portion of the road, thefeed wire being arranged in lengths as shown on the ac-companying diagram. The total mileage of the line fromRutherford to Singac is about twenty miles. 9 1 One of the illustrations in the group on page 613shows the car house at Rutherford, of which there is alsoshown a plan view in Fig. 1. This car house was built onlow ground, and about two feet of peat and bog wasremoved from the entire surface where the building nowstands. A Howard clock in front of the building enablesthe conductors to set their watches without leaving thecar. Each of the tracks in the building has a separateentering curve so that cars can be readily run out of the 4 - s TROLLEY r££D£XS Et- EC ■ L T FIG. 2.—DIAGRAM OF FEEDERS—PATERSON, PASSAIC & RUTHERFORD ELECTRIC RAILWAY FIG. 1.—PLAN OF CAR HOUSE—PATERSON, PASSAIC & RUTHERFORD ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. Some of their associates in this enterprise are CharlesCurie, of Curie, Smith & Mackay, New York; Ex-SenatorCharles H. Russell, Thomas D. Jordan, comptroller ofthe Equitable Life Assurance Company, F. C. Van Dykand James A. Morrisse, of Paterson, N. J. The companyis a consolidation of five different companies, by which itsecures a continuous line from Rutherford through Passaicand the heart of the city of Paterson to Little Falls andSingac. building in case of fire. The floor of the building slopesfifteen inches in 100 ft. from the rear to the front. Thisenables cars to run out by gravity in cases of necessity,such as fire; and the trolley wires are so arranged thatthe current can be cut off of the wires inside of the build-ing by means of a switch on a pole outside at the streetline. Pits are provided under the tracks the entire lengthof the building, and the bottoms of the pi
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