. The street railway review . OBSERVATION CAR cAUFORNIA. section, from which they can be quickly unloaded. This car hasa Peckham single truck and two G. E. 800 motors. The track department uses seven cars for hauling cars, as can be seen from the illustrations, are arrangedto carry rails, poles, sand, rock, paving blocks, special work, oranything else in the line of track material. These cars are 40 They are equipped with Peckham extra heavy 14-B-3-Strucks, four G. E. 58 motors, air brakes, etc. By leaving the side livered on every trip of these cars; the trips were mad
. The street railway review . OBSERVATION CAR cAUFORNIA. section, from which they can be quickly unloaded. This car hasa Peckham single truck and two G. E. 800 motors. The track department uses seven cars for hauling cars, as can be seen from the illustrations, are arrangedto carry rails, poles, sand, rock, paving blocks, special work, oranything else in the line of track material. These cars are 40 They are equipped with Peckham extra heavy 14-B-3-Strucks, four G. E. 58 motors, air brakes, etc. By leaving the side livered on every trip of these cars; the trips were made in lesstime and at only two-fifths of the previous cost. Some of the suburban roads are very dusty, and it was thoughtadvisable to sprinkle them with oil. A single truck oil tank carwhich was no longer needed for this purpose was fitted up asshown in the accompanying illustration. A pipe runs from thebottom of the tank to the rear end of the car. A T is attachedto it and pipes run to the edges of the car body. Here elbows. FUNERAL CAR. wings down, poles, rails, or special work can be hauled; 60 are readily handled. By putting up the side wings andputting in the ends, 10 cu. yd. of rock or sand can be hauled ineach , or 20 cu. yd. to the car. Thirty tons have been carriedwithout any strain on the equipment. These cars illustrate howmoney can be saved by having miscellaneous cars properly built and Ts are again fastened and pieces of perforated pipe arescrewed into the T on each side. In order to sprinkle, the perfor-ated pipe is pulled over so that it is at right angles to the railon each side. Directly over the rail for about four inches thereare no perforations. The perforations are i in. apart and J4in. in diameter. By opening the valve in the pipe near the tank, Jan. is, ipoSl STREIiT RAILWAY REVIEW. and running the car at the rate of about 3 or 4 miles per houra heavy coat of oil is left on the , extending 2 ft. outside ofthe rails. Each electrical car h
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