File:Electric railway journal (1909) (14738672486).jpg

Identifier: electricrailway341909newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
tion of adepartment head known as superintendent of telephone, tele-graph and signals. The dispatching of trains is done with tele-phones installed at depots and in booths along the lines. ThePostal Telegraph Company has offices in all of the PacificElectric Railway depots. The railway company recentlypurchased 300 Western Electric telephone sets for use on itsdispatching wires. These instruments will replace an assort-ment of older types, which are not standard. The famous Mt. Lowe railway forms a part of the PacificElectric system. This scenic road includes a cable incline,which is 3,000 ft. long and has a difference of elevation of1,325 ft. between its two ends. Its two cars are under thecontrol of an operator in a driving station at the top of theincline. Motive power is supplied by a 100-hp 550-volt mo-tor geared to a Holliday cable-grip wheel driven at 1 3 r.p.m.From the summit of the cable incline a narrow-gage trolleyline operates for 5 miles to the Alpine Tavern, owned by the
Text Appearing After Image:
Pacific Electric Railway—Map of Interurban Lines Near Los Angeles 568 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXIV. No. 14. railway. A roadbed for this narrow-gage line has been cutout of the side of the mountain and has an average grade of7 per cent for its entire distance. TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATIONThe transportation department of the Pacific Electric Rail-way is in charge of a general superintendent and three di-vision superintendents. The operation of trains is closely inaccord with steam railroad methods. There are 370 passen-ger cars, 430 freight and express cars and 1 7 locomotives orconstruction motor cars available for service. The types ofpassenger and freight equipments were illustrated and describedin the Electric Railway Review for July 24, 1907,page 64. All passenger cars are built with a half-open end,but the siding along the open section is brought up to the win-dow level to stiffen the body framing. The underframingcomprises four 7-in. 15-lb. I-beam sills, the center sills

Note About Images