. Electric railway gazette . so thatin case of accidentto car body ortruck another can besubstituted in itsplace, and where openand closed cars areused, at the end ofthe season the truckscan be taken out ofone set of cars and the drifts encountered last winter upon the EastSide St. Ry. of Brockton, Mass. This road isequipped with the overhead electric system, andit is claimed by the Sprague Co., which equippedthe road that, owing to its feeder distribution ofelectric current, power can be applied at the endof the line for clearing the track of snow morecertainly, and with less loss, than by an
. Electric railway gazette . so thatin case of accidentto car body ortruck another can besubstituted in itsplace, and where openand closed cars areused, at the end ofthe season the truckscan be taken out ofone set of cars and the drifts encountered last winter upon the EastSide St. Ry. of Brockton, Mass. This road isequipped with the overhead electric system, andit is claimed by the Sprague Co., which equippedthe road that, owing to its feeder distribution ofelectric current, power can be applied at the endof the line for clearing the track of snow morecertainly, and with less loss, than by any othersystem. There were a number of roads operating placed thethe upper the other,a large meanschord ofin the truck the pedes-tals or spring postsare held squarely inposition, and the bot-tom frame of the carbody is preventedfrom spreading, and where the truck is — ——■ applied to old cars the upper chord of the truck dispenses with the, necessity of re-squaring the bottom frame if out of been equipped by them. Evidently the workdone by this concern proves to be eminentlysatisfactory. The company is composed of active, energeticmen, well up in each department of their they are Chicago hustlers, is evidenced bytheir equipping a road, including the furnishingof the Sprague apparatus and new cars, bodies,and trucks, and starting the electric cars forbusiness in just 55 days from the signing of thecontract. The growthof their business hasbeen such that theirpresent quarters inThe Rookery are sosmall, that often thereis standing roomonly. They haveleased and are fittingup large handsomeoffices on the groundfloor of the Rialtobuilding into whighthey expect to moveduring the presentmonth. Their store-room in the basementwill be a model inits arrangements forthe dispatch of thatbranch of their busi-ness, they being largemanufacturers ofspecial devices forelectric equipment ofelectric railways. According to an exchange, the longest hor
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