. The Street railway journal . onlyhalf, or less than half, of the cars are in use at one time, al-lowing plenty of time for the inspection of those in the carhouse. All necessary repairs can be made in the day time,and, as a result, the general manager states that the linehas been very free from accidents to its equipment. Themethod involves a considerably greater first outlay, but, itis claimed, is much more economical in the long run. The Bridgeport Traction Company is obtaining excel-lent results with the Reagen water tube grate. With anincreasing number of cars the number of boilers in re
. The Street railway journal . onlyhalf, or less than half, of the cars are in use at one time, al-lowing plenty of time for the inspection of those in the carhouse. All necessary repairs can be made in the day time,and, as a result, the general manager states that the linehas been very free from accidents to its equipment. Themethod involves a considerably greater first outlay, but, itis claimed, is much more economical in the long run. The Bridgeport Traction Company is obtaining excel-lent results with the Reagen water tube grate. With anincreasing number of cars the number of boilers in regularuse has been cut down from eight to four, showing adoubled capacity. With from fifty to eighty-five cars inoperation, the power station, which is a condensing one,burns from 290 to 300 tons a month of coal. The Norwalk Tramway Company is installing a 270k. w. General Electric generator, direct connected to aMcintosh & Seymour tandem compound engine. Thecompany is also laying a considerable amount of sixty footT New Vacuum Pump for Elevated RailwayService. A unique piece of apparatus in air brake practice is the twin-cylinder vacuum pump designed and built by the Standard Air-Brake Company for the electric locomotive equipped by the ElectricvStorage Battery Company, of Philadelphia, for the Manhattan Ele-vated Railroad Company, New York. The pump is built on thegeneral lines of the well known Standard double acting type. Avacuum pump having been specified, the Standard Company couldnot follow its usual practice, but had to furnish entirely new success was .shown in the preliminary shop trials, during whichthe pump was cut in and out automatically on one-quarter poundvariation of pressure, giving at the same time 28^2 ins. of vacuum. In the construction of this twin-cylinder vacuum pump particu-lar attention was paid to the interior workmanship so that the out-fit might be long-lived, built of the best known materials, and thatit would work under the most
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