. The Street railway journal . 25 ft. and no tie wires are used. No. 11 showshow a wire support is made where house connection can Large Interorban Electric Railway in Southwestern Missouri The Southwest Missouri Electric Railway is an evolu-tion from a mule road, the only remaining vestiges of whichare a wooden car barn, still used for a car house, and a fewof the little cars, now in use as suburban passenger sta-tions and as business quarters for a shoemaker and a news-dealer. The progenitive mule road to which reference ismade was built in 1890 by A. H. Rogers, now president ofthe surviving
. The Street railway journal . 25 ft. and no tie wires are used. No. 11 showshow a wire support is made where house connection can Large Interorban Electric Railway in Southwestern Missouri The Southwest Missouri Electric Railway is an evolu-tion from a mule road, the only remaining vestiges of whichare a wooden car barn, still used for a car house, and a fewof the little cars, now in use as suburban passenger sta-tions and as business quarters for a shoemaker and a news-dealer. The progenitive mule road to which reference ismade was built in 1890 by A. H. Rogers, now president ofthe surviving company. It extended from the west end ofWebb City to the east end of Carterville, a distance of 2.\miles, and was operated with mules from Sept. r, 1890,until March 1, 1893, when it was sold to the present com-pany, reconstructed and extended from its former WebbCity terminus south and west to Joplin, a distance of 6miles, and from its former Carterville terminus east and E. \ R. 34. W. R. 33. W R. 32. W. R, 31. T. 29 T. 28 T. 27 MAP OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ELECTRIC RAILWAY be made, but no pole can be set. The feeders are tied inthe insulators in this case, and the span wire is also insu-lated by strain insulators. Electric Railway at Amiens, France The tramway system at Amiens consists of four lines,radiating from a central point and comprising about of track. The entire system has recently beenequipped electrically by the French Thomson-HoustonCompany, and is now in operation. The track is laid with36-kg. Broca rails, and there are twenty-eight motor cars,each equipped with two motors. The cars are di-vided into two sections, first and second class, each capableof seating ten passengers, while the two platforms togetherwill hold eighteen passengers. The car weighs 8500 kg.,and is capable of making speed at 25 km. per hour on alevel. The power station contains three 150-kw. units, withCorliss horizontal simple engines, with cylinder dimensions560 m
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