. The street railway review . 44 journeys end, the same unseen force has preceded tliemand arranged food for them to eat on arrival. During the harvest season, on a large farm near thehotel, a wire is run from the electric tramway and carriedout into the fields and there harnessed to a dynamo, andthe railroad is made to do duty and operate a threshingmachine, which turns out twenty-five hundred pounds ofgrain per hour with a Siemans Bros. & Co. motor andtwo men and one small boy. This is probably the onlystreet raiUvaj- in the world that is so closely allied to agri-cultural pursuits and the d
. The street railway review . 44 journeys end, the same unseen force has preceded tliemand arranged food for them to eat on arrival. During the harvest season, on a large farm near thehotel, a wire is run from the electric tramway and carriedout into the fields and there harnessed to a dynamo, andthe railroad is made to do duty and operate a threshingmachine, which turns out twenty-five hundred pounds ofgrain per hour with a Siemans Bros. & Co. motor andtwo men and one small boy. This is probably the onlystreet raiUvaj- in the world that is so closely allied to agri-cultural pursuits and the dear people. The followingillustration is taken from the line of the electric At present six trains are run each way daily, leavingPortrush on the arrival of the express trains. There aretwo classes of fare and two grades of cars on the tram-way and the fare each way is one shilling, first class. The interesting feature of the construction is the useof a third rail as the conductor rail for the electric cur-rent. It is a light T rail, set outside the track, and at adistance of twenty inches from it, and supported on
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