. Electric railway journal . Fig. 1—Brooklyn Car Lighting—Details of Block forLamp Socket. mounted on electrobestos blocks, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 2 shows the present arrangements of the lightingcircuits on the principal types of surface cars. It will benoted that the lamps are connected on alternate-series cir-cuits so that the burn-out of one lamp will not affect theadjacent lights. Originally when illuminated block destina-tion signs were installed for the vestibules two lamps weretaken from the interior of the car. It was found, however,that this change caused too great a decrease
. Electric railway journal . Fig. 1—Brooklyn Car Lighting—Details of Block forLamp Socket. mounted on electrobestos blocks, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 2 shows the present arrangements of the lightingcircuits on the principal types of surface cars. It will benoted that the lamps are connected on alternate-series cir-cuits so that the burn-out of one lamp will not affect theadjacent lights. Originally when illuminated block destina-tion signs were installed for the vestibules two lamps weretaken from the interior of the car. It was found, however,that this change caused too great a decrease in the illu-mination of some parts of the car. This objection was metand the conditions considerably bettered by installinganother circuit, thereby adding three 16-cp lamps for theinside lighting. The light circuits are made up of No. 14Okonite rubber-insulated, single-braid wire. HEADLIGHTS At one end of the car the headlight was formerly thethird lamp in the series. By making it the fifth lamp inthe series, as at the other end of the car, the groundingof the headlight from water or o
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