Electrical news and engineering . eats, smoking com-partments, toilet rooms, and train vestibules. Eachcar is mounted on Brill 27-E-:i trucks with 34-inch , O-inch axles, and driven by four G. E. 204, 75 horsepower motors, with Sprague-General Electric multiple unitcontrol. The trains are also equipped with Westinghouseautomatic ?. brake system and pneumatic train linesignals, Tomlinson I^adial couplers and carry all thestandard railroad signals and markers. The present equipment on this branch comprises threebaggage express cars, four combination passenge
Electrical news and engineering . eats, smoking com-partments, toilet rooms, and train vestibules. Eachcar is mounted on Brill 27-E-:i trucks with 34-inch , O-inch axles, and driven by four G. E. 204, 75 horsepower motors, with Sprague-General Electric multiple unitcontrol. The trains are also equipped with Westinghouseautomatic ?. brake system and pneumatic train linesignals, Tomlinson I^adial couplers and carry all thestandard railroad signals and markers. The present equipment on this branch comprises threebaggage express cars, four combination passenger and bag-gage cars, and two passenger cars, while three baggage cars,and three passenger cars are under construction in thecompanys shops. The traffic on the line has already taxed the presentequipment to the limit, and an express and mail service hasbeen inaugurated. To handle the freight business one through train dailyeach way is run between Vancouver and Chilliwack viaEburne. These trains are equipped with four-wheeled ca-. B. (. K. H. Xi-\v t)\ci-lifa(l i instruct ion (.ar booses, and are hauled by fifty-ton, 640 horse power Dick-Kerr locomotives, of which the company at present havethree in service. These locomotives are very powerful, andcan handle heavy trains with case, up to the full capacity ofthe power stations on the line. To handle the freight business on the interurban systemgenerally, in addition to a large number of C. P. R. orother cars for points beyond the companys system, therehave been built or purchased 100 box cars, 12 stock cars,and 170 flats, the latter including twenty-five forty-ton,forty-one feet logging cars, and the present business offering indicates that this e(iuipnient will have to be increased inthe near future. Service on the twn interurban divisions has been main-tained by half-hourly cars each way. there being eighteen 76 THE ELECTRICAL NEWS )0-foot standard ,)4-passenger cars, and at present ten 45-foot cars built by tbe Preston Car and
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