. The street railway review . e low pressurecylinder is accomplished by the piston exposing a num-ber of holes around the cylinder when at the bottom of itsstroke. There are two condensers, an abundant supply ofwater being furnished from the canal. The switch-boardis fitted with General Electric and Weston generators and the two feeder panels have thecustomary switches, ammeters and circuit breakers. An-other panel is provided for recording voltmeter and a totaloutput wattmeter. There are seven closed cars as illustrated in Fig. 6 andthree trail cars. Fig. 7. The motor car
. The street railway review . e low pressurecylinder is accomplished by the piston exposing a num-ber of holes around the cylinder when at the bottom of itsstroke. There are two condensers, an abundant supply ofwater being furnished from the canal. The switch-boardis fitted with General Electric and Weston generators and the two feeder panels have thecustomary switches, ammeters and circuit breakers. An-other panel is provided for recording voltmeter and a totaloutput wattmeter. There are seven closed cars as illustrated in Fig. 6 andthree trail cars. Fig. 7. The motor cars are 27 ft. 6 in. overall and 6 ft. 4 in. wide and have a capacity for 24 open cars carry 40 passengers. Each motor car hastwo 15 h. p., four-pole, iron clad motors with spring sus- pension. The cars are mounted on Brill trucks. Series-parallel controllers are used. Each car is lighted by ten 16c. p. incandescent lamps. The car barn occupies a portion of the same building that contains tlie power station. This. FIG. 7.—OPEN CAR. road, for a small one, appears to be a model in its way andit is safe to predict that it will be a success for it adheresclosely to American practice and the engineers have ex-cluded all novelties based on British theory. NEW PHILADELPHIA PARK. The Philadelphia Record thus describes the attractionsof Chestnut Hill Park, at the terminus of the Union Trac-tion Companys Germantown line, which was opened forpublic inspection on May 28, after four months of hard laborand an outlay of $250,000. The projectors were not only desirous of securing some-thing just as good in the shape of a pleasure resort as couldbe found in this vicinity, but they were determined to outdoanything of the kind ever attempted. The cheap trolleyride to the site of Chestnut Hill Park is one which thousandsof people have patronized for the past two years. HistoricGermantown and beautiful Chestnut Hill, through whichthe trolley line passes, present sights which are pic
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