. The Street railway journal . o its seat and shut oft themain. The rate of flow at which the boiler would be shut off isdetermined 1)y the weight of the valve and the distance be-tween tlie two valve faces. This is adjusted to correspond tothe greatest overload at which it is desired to operate theboiler. This valve can also be used as an ordinary stop valve. II. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIIL No. 3. EQUIPMENT FOR NEW LINE AT HAGERSTOWN, MD. About Sept. 15 next a new line is to be opened betweenHagerstown, McL, and Sbady Grove, Pa., a distance of 10miles, 6 miles being in Maryland and 4
. The Street railway journal . o its seat and shut oft themain. The rate of flow at which the boiler would be shut off isdetermined 1)y the weight of the valve and the distance be-tween tlie two valve faces. This is adjusted to correspond tothe greatest overload at which it is desired to operate theboiler. This valve can also be used as an ordinary stop valve. II. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIIL No. 3. EQUIPMENT FOR NEW LINE AT HAGERSTOWN, MD. About Sept. 15 next a new line is to be opened betweenHagerstown, McL, and Sbady Grove, Pa., a distance of 10miles, 6 miles being in Maryland and 4 miles in Pennsylvania,intersecting at Shady Grove with the Chambersburg, Green-castle & Waynesboro Electric Railway, a line now operatedbetween Greencastle and Waynesboro, and on to Pen Mar, abeautiful resort on South Mountain near the line betweenPennsylvania and Maryland, from which two States it derivesits name. The name of the new line will be the Hagerstown& Northern, and it will run almost due north from Hagers-. COMPARTMENT OF COMDINATION CAR town on a private right of way, the maximum grade of whichis 3 per cent, and with an average grade of i 2-10 per is being laid with 60-lb. T-rail, ties spaced 2 ft. centers,standard gage, with overhead construction of 4-0 trolley withdouble-pole suspension. Power will be bought from the Ha-gerstown Railway Company. The new cars for this road are of the combination passen-ger, smoking and baggage type, one of which is shown in theaccompanying view. The J. G. Brill Company, of Phila-delphia, is the builder, and the cars embody that companyssemi-convertible grooveless-post window system. The carsare particularly interesting from the factthat, although but 32 ft. over the bodies,they have three compartments. The pas-senger compartment, 18 ft. in length, hasa seating capacity for 28 passengers. Thetransverse seats have high push-overbacks with head rolls and corner grab-handles, and are manufactured by the carbuilder.
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