. The Street railway journal . END VIEW, SHOWING PLOWS DOWN track are cast-welded, and the rails themselves are good formuch more service. ♦^^ IMPROVEMENTS IN SALT LAKE CITY The Consolidated Railway & Power Company, of Salt LakeCity, has made a number of important improvements and ad-ditions during the past year in all departments of its service,and the road is now well equipped for operation. The rolling stock has been increased during the past year bythe addition of eleven closed double-truck cars, built by theLaclede Car Company. These cars will seat fifty people, andare equipped with air b
. The Street railway journal . END VIEW, SHOWING PLOWS DOWN track are cast-welded, and the rails themselves are good formuch more service. ♦^^ IMPROVEMENTS IN SALT LAKE CITY The Consolidated Railway & Power Company, of Salt LakeCity, has made a number of important improvements and ad-ditions during the past year in all departments of its service,and the road is now well equipped for operation. The rolling stock has been increased during the past year bythe addition of eleven closed double-truck cars, built by theLaclede Car Company. These cars will seat fifty people, andare equipped with air brakes, trolley catchers and fenders. Thecompany has also purchased six fifteen double-bench open cars,and expects early this coming year to secure six others of thesame type. The company has added to its rolling stock during. SPECIAL WORK NEAR PIONEER MONUMENT the past year twelve long double-truck cars, made by splicingtogether two single-truck cars, and has found the longer carsso popular that all of the present single-truck cars will be soconverted. The new cars are equipped with Hunter fenders. The company has also built new car houses on the site of theold Salt Lake Rapid Transit Company car houses, which weredestroyed by fire in the summer of 1901. A considerable amount of new track has also been built, and January 24, 190,^. STREET RAILWAY TOURNAL. 141 several complicated pieces of special work have been laid. Thenew rails are all 72 lbs. to the yard. One of the largest piecesof track construction installed is shown in the accompanying
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