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Title: The Street railway journal The Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway Line
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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engine cinders and ballasted with stone. The overhead construction is carried on round chest-nut poles thirty feet in length. The trolley wire is No. o B. & S. gauge, hard drawn copper, and the feed wire is No. o triple braided, weatherproof. All the line appliances are of the General Electric type. The motor cars operated by the company are thirty-four in number, fifteen belonging to the Altoona & Logan Valley Railway Company and nineteen to the City Passenger Railway Company. The trail cars, of which there are fourteen, are divided, eight and six respectively,between the two companies. The gauge is five feet three inches. Both motormen and conductors are paid twelve and a half cents per hour. The cars are mounted on Brill rigid, No. 21 trucks. The motor equipment is the Edison sixty horse power, and the Westinghouse fifty horsepower type. The interior furnishing of the cars is very tasteful, the seats being of mahogany covered with Wilton carpet. Lewis & Fowler registers are used.
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March, 1894.) THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 157 The cars are heated by both stoves and electric heaters, the Consolidated Car Heating Company's apparatus being employed in the latter case. The company buys its wheels of the Lobdell Car Wheel Company and has adopted a thirty-three inch wheel with a two and a half inch tread. The rolling stock of the company also includes some snow plows supplied by the Brooklyn Rail-way Supply Company, of Stamford, Conn. In its machine shop the company has installed a large lathe, vices, block and fall, etc., for making all ordinary repairs. Two views of attractions established by the company for stimulating traffic on the road are given in the ovals in the engraving. These are views of Lakemont Park between Altoona and Hollidaysburg owned by the company,

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