. The Street railway journal . J. WILSON, PRESIDENT MOBILE LIGHT & RAILWAY CO. J. H. WILSON, GEN. MAN. MOBILE LIGHT & RAILWAY CO. The Mobile Street Railway Company, operates twenty-one miles of track, and the system isunder the management of Raphael Semmes, a gentlemanwell known to the street railway fraternity. Mr. Semmesis the only executive officer of the company residing inMobile, and under his direction the lines were changedfrom animal to electric traction, the work having been. FIG. 8.—INTERIOR OF DYNAMO ROOM —MOBILE LIGHT & RAILWAY CO. begun in May last, and completed and put in operat
. The Street railway journal . J. WILSON, PRESIDENT MOBILE LIGHT & RAILWAY CO. J. H. WILSON, GEN. MAN. MOBILE LIGHT & RAILWAY CO. The Mobile Street Railway Company, operates twenty-one miles of track, and the system isunder the management of Raphael Semmes, a gentlemanwell known to the street railway fraternity. Mr. Semmesis the only executive officer of the company residing inMobile, and under his direction the lines were changedfrom animal to electric traction, the work having been. FIG. 8.—INTERIOR OF DYNAMO ROOM —MOBILE LIGHT & RAILWAY CO. begun in May last, and completed and put in operationon the 16th of August. The rolling stock consists oftwenty closed and twenty open cars; the former werebuilt by Stephenson, and the latter in the companysshops. The open cars are not yet electrically closed cars are painted white, and look clean and in-viting. They are mounted on Baltimore trucks, withwheels by the same makers, and are equipped with Thom-son-Houston twenty-five horse power motors. Attached to the front of the trucks are adjustablewire brushes for removing the sand from the rails. These are raised or low-ered by the motor-man by means ofan adjustable rod,supported againstthe dash. The soilbeing exceedinglysandy, the brushesare essential astrack cleaners. Atsome crossingsand at curves onunpaved streetswhere the streettraffic is heavy,men are employedfor cleaning thesand from the railsThe side steps ofthe open cars arehinged so that theyma
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