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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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gun The road has five stations—the terminals at CrippleCreek and Victor, and Anchoria, Midway, Windy Pointand Dyer stations in the order named from Cripple Creek.The round trip is at present made in 1 hour and 29 minutesat an average speed of about 10 miles an hour, but thisspeed will shortly be increased to make a round trip be-tween Cripple Creek and Victor in one hour. The roadwas promoted, constructed and is under the general man-agement of L. D. Ross, vice-president of the company.Only passenger traffic has been- handled up to the presenttime, but the road was built and equipment has been or-dered to haul ore and other freight in the district. Theroad is building and will have in service within sixty daysfour more passenger cars to take care of the passengertraffic alone. ♦♦♦ Special Cars in Brooklyn, N. Y. The Nassau Electric Railroad Company, of Brooklyn,has in operation on its lines a number of specially designedcars, several of which are extremely novel and ingenious.
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FIG. 1.—EXTERIOR OF OFFICE CAR These include an office car, a tower car, two parlor carsand a new type of convertible car of which about 250 arenow in operation on the road or in process of construction. The office car, which is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, was de-signed by F. S. Drake, superintendent of the Nassau sys-tem, and he spends about three-fourths of his time in it,traveling from one point of the road to another. Mr.Drake states that this car has come to be an almost indis-pensable part of the roads equipment, as it enables him tomake inspections and perform work that it would be ex-tremely inconvenient to do without it. As will be seenfrom the illustrations, the car is an ordinary one, with 16-ftbody, from which the seats have been removed. It is fittedwith arm chairs, a large desk, lack giving the names ofconductors, hanging shelf, etc. There is a five-light clus- ter over the desk. Johns heaters are used, and the body ismounted on a Peckham truck. The car has a regular mo-to

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