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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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first broken for the road in November, L905, and the first steelconstruction was started in September, L906. it is planned to build a surface extension from the end of the line to Kim-ball and West Wilson avenues. All trains are to run asexpresses, from G a. m. to 12 p. m., and the schedule timefrom Ravenswood to tin- Union Loop is 30 minutes. The lineruns over a private right of way through a populous andrapidly growing ten*! About a year ago the Pacific Electric Railway purchasedan Oldsmobile commercial wagon designed for trucking incity streets. Under the guidance of S. H. Anderson, chiefelectrician, the engines and framework of this equipmentnave been rebuilt and strengthened. As shown in the illus-tration, the automobile has been fitted with a substantialtelescoping tower for trolley work. At the rear of thedrivers seat is a large tool box with a second seat providedon top of it. In this box are kept all the tools necessaryfor the ordinary emergency work. There are also two mate-
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Pacific Electric Railway—Automobile Trolley Wagon. rial boxes along the sides of the tower. Supported from therear is a box in which is carried a supply of rope, and laddersare placed under the tower. Since this wagon has been inuse it is estimated that with one crew it has satisfactorilyperformed the service of two tower wagons driven by horses. Station log books, or records in some form, of fuel andwater consumption, hours of labor and times of putting ma-chines in and out of service are kept in all well-operatedpower plants, but the usefulness of an engineers diary is lessgenerally appreciated. Many engineers may not favor suchextra clerical work, but where the habit of recording importanthappenings day by day is not a serious burden, the operatingcompany is likely to find it of value. The larger the plantthe more important it is to keep on file the dates of variousrepairs, arrival of fuel and supplies, conferences with officials.accidents, shutdowns, unusual overloads, the const

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