. The Street railway journal . aveno previous training in railway work. Motormen and con-ductors will receive 25 cents an hour, and brakemen 20cents an hour. Ten hours will constitute a days regular crews will work from early in the morning to3 and 4 oclock, when they will be relieved by other crewscontinuing service until 1 and 2 oclock the following morn-ing. BEECHWOOD PARK The Philadelphia & Western Railroad anticipates heavyamusement traffic between the West Philadelphia terminaland Beechwood Park, which enters on its first season. Thisresort is directly opposite the power station
. The Street railway journal . aveno previous training in railway work. Motormen and con-ductors will receive 25 cents an hour, and brakemen 20cents an hour. Ten hours will constitute a days regular crews will work from early in the morning to3 and 4 oclock, when they will be relieved by other crewscontinuing service until 1 and 2 oclock the following morn-ing. BEECHWOOD PARK The Philadelphia & Western Railroad anticipates heavyamusement traffic between the West Philadelphia terminaland Beechwood Park, which enters on its first season. Thisresort is directly opposite the power station of the railroadcompany and is within a through-run, 5-cent zone. Thepassengers visiting the park will be accommodated by anextra track and the large platforms shown under construc-tion, and will reach the park entrance safely over a bridgecarried on concrete towers. The railroad company alsohas erected on the park grounds a 6oo-kw sub-station forlighting and power. The park is divided in two sections, one of which will be. A VIEW OF BEECHWOOD PARK, SHOWING SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS AND THE SPECIAL PASSENGER PLATFORM UNDER CONSTRUCTION located on extended ties at the end of each section. The signals are of the one-arm, home, automatic blocktype, and are overlapped, the average length of overlap be-ing about 3200 ft. East of Beechwood Park, where trafficwill be very dense, short blocks with a full block overlapare employed, both the block and overlap averaging 3200 of the Park the blocks average about 8000 ft. in length. The average length of track sections is 3500 ft.; thelongest is 8800 ft. The ability to operate long track sec-tions with alternating current is, in fact, one of the impor-tant advantages of this type of control. This company is the first high-speed interurl^an railway,in contradistinction to an electrified steam railroad, to pro-vide such an elaborate and scientific system of block sig-nals. Without question, it has set an example which mustbe f
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