. The Street railway journal . STEAMER OWNED BY COMPANY USED IN TORONTO SERVICE long and 40 ft. wide. Here are to be found the train des-patchers office and the general freight agent; also on thesecond floor, a lounging-room for the employees. An in-novation in the handling of fruit has been adopted by thisroad. Small fruit platforms have been erected along theline almost at the door of the grower; trucks have been 286 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. id. placed thereon, and fruit is immediately loaded on thetrucks. The trucks are then run onto the freight cars andare taken through to t
. The Street railway journal . STEAMER OWNED BY COMPANY USED IN TORONTO SERVICE long and 40 ft. wide. Here are to be found the train des-patchers office and the general freight agent; also on thesecond floor, a lounging-room for the employees. An in-novation in the handling of fruit has been adopted by thisroad. Small fruit platforms have been erected along theline almost at the door of the grower; trucks have been 286 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. id. placed thereon, and fruit is immediately loaded on thetrucks. The trucks are then run onto the freight cars andare taken through to their destination without having tobe handled several times, as under the old system. To give an idea of the amount of business that is doneover the main line, one week in July alone 25,756 pas-. STANDARD COMBINATION DOUBLE-TRUCK CAR sengers were carried and 2296 tons of freight. Theearnings have been beyond the expectations of the stock-holders, and it is very evident that good service and properequipment will bring good returns. The company has recently purchased a local line run-ning through several small towns about St. Catharines, to-gether with a water-power, and is now putting in apparatusto develop 600 hp. The power will be of the same charac-ter as that generated at the great Niagara power plant atNiagara Falls, so that either original powers may be usedin case of necessity. The power is at present derived from two rotary sub-stations, one at St. Catharines and one at Niagara Falls,Ont., the original source of energy being the great Niagarapower plant at Niagara Falls, N. Y. The current is re-ceived at the Niagara sub-station at 2200 volts, three-phase,25 cycles. Here it is stepped up by three transformers,delta connected, to 11,000 volts, to feed the step-downtransfo
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