. The street railway review . his method of opera-tion, the switchboard is provided with two sets o( bus bars. The third ^car house of the system is located near Bath, and is alarge wooden building, which was formerly occupied as a factoryfor making oil cloth. Adjoining this are a number of out build-ings, which together with quite a large tract of land are owned bythe company. ROLLING STOCK. The suburban system has 14-bench, open cars with scats for Opassengers. These cars are 40 ft. over all and have two steps oneach side, as shown in Fig. 4. These cars are mounted on Peckhamtrucks, and are
. The street railway review . his method of opera-tion, the switchboard is provided with two sets o( bus bars. The third ^car house of the system is located near Bath, and is alarge wooden building, which was formerly occupied as a factoryfor making oil cloth. Adjoining this are a number of out build-ings, which together with quite a large tract of land are owned bythe company. ROLLING STOCK. The suburban system has 14-bench, open cars with scats for Opassengers. These cars are 40 ft. over all and have two steps oneach side, as shown in Fig. 4. These cars are mounted on Peckhamtrucks, and are equipped with 50-h. p. motors. Both Westing-house and General Electric motors are used on the cars of thesystem. The total number of cars, including open and closed, is75. A number of the closed single truck cars have cross seats withcenter aisles. Included in the roUing stock, is a very fine parlorcar, named Merrymceting. This car is 42 ft. over all with un-usually long platforms, ami with steps attached to the outer ends of. FIC. 4 TYIK OF OPEN CAR. the platform, offering easy access to the car. This car is alsomounted on Peckham trucks, and is equipped with air brakes withaxle compressors. This car has easy chairs unholstcred in greenplush in the closed section and rattan chairs on the platforms. Thespecial car is leased to private parties who may wish to ride overthe line or visit the parks, and is very popular with the of the suburban cars has recently been equipped with a search-light headlight candle power, made by the Dayton Manu-facturing Co., of Dayton, O., which is said to be giving excellentsatisfaction. The company is also making a trial of the Price fric-tion brake, made by the Peckham Truck Co. 80 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XI, No. 2. PARKS. Merrymeeting Park embraces a tract of 147 acres, all enclosedwith a wire fence, located V/i miles from Brunswick. The en-closure embraces an area of cleared land, formerly farming land,which slopes away in
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