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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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verhead ma-terial is General Electric make, and the copper bonds weresupplied by the American Electrical Works. The track is laid with 50-lb. T rails throughout, excepton Main Street, Joplin, and Main Street, Galena, where56-lb. girder rails are employed. These rails are spikedto white oak ties of standard railroad size, and the entireroadbed is ballasted with tailings from the mining plants.These tailings provide a ballast that tamps nicely, and af-ford an easy-riding and solid track. The two main streams crossed—Turkey Creek, nearJoplin, and Center Creek, between Carterville and Car-thage—are spanned by steel truss bridges resting on cut-stone abutments. The rolling stock consists of ten single-truck cars,twelve double-truck closed cars, eleven double-truck opencars and three trail cars. The cars are heated by electricheaters and Baker hot-water heaters, and all interurbancars carry Wagenhals electric headlights. The motorequipments are made up of S. R. F. 30, G. E. 1200, Walker
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STANDARD DOUBLE TRUCK CAR IN JOPLIN 5-A, Westinghouse No. 3, No. 12-As, No. 49 and No.38-B motors. The electric heaters are of the Americanand Consolidated types. The managers of the company state that they have notyet found any trolley wheel that can always be dependedupon to stay on the wire. The main remedy for thetrouble of trolleys jumping the wire is found in good linework and attention to the trolley rope by conductors whilepassing around curves, etc. Two parks are owned by the company—Midway Park,near Joplin, and Lakeside Park, between Carterville andCarthage. The latter represents an investment of $20,000.At Lakeside the company owns a small hotel, surroundedby a beautiful lawn, for the convenience of its employees May, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 283 at the Lakeside station and car men whose run is out ofthe Lakeside car house. Very little trouble is experienced in the country sectionswith snow, as the snow does not get deep enough to inter-fere with the operation of th

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