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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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s on the cars can be connected elec-trically that there may be no interruption of the current atcrossings which are narrow enough to be bridged by two-cartrains. The interruption of the current supply, due to theomission of the third rail at highway crossings, causes con-siderable annoyance to passengers at night, because of themomentary extinguishing of the lights. As most of the high-way crossings on this road are between Wheaton and Chicago,and all trains between Wheaton and Chicago are now two-cartrains, much of the annoyance formerly caused by extinguish-ing lights at crossings will be obviated. DEPARTMENT STORES BIG TROLLEY PICNIC One day last summer the Broadway Department Store, ofLos Angeles, Cal., gave all of its employees an outing at theseashore. The accompanying cut shows ten special cars of thePacific Electric Railway Company as they looked just beforethey left the city with 600 happy excursionists for the gala dayat Long Beach. The cars were decorated and festooned in a
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A CALIFORNIA PICNIC PARTYmost striking manner, all bearing the two slogans of the store—Dont Worry and Watch Us Grow. Flowers and buntingwere used in great abundance. The wing-like decorations onthe roofs of the cars were of white cloth latticed with red paint.The party was personally conducted by Hugh F. Stewart, as-sistant general passenger agent of the Pacific Electric RailwayCompany. Refreshments were served en route. FASTENING MOTOR LIDS * In a discussion at the convention of the American RailwayMechanical & Electrical Association,H. J. Lake, master mechanic of theMuncie, Hartford & Fort Wayne Rail-way Company, spoke of a method offastening motor commutator lids on themotors to prevent their being torn offby the brake rods when rounding curves.The accompanying illustration of thehasp used may make Mr. Lakes methoda little plainer. The device is an ordi-nary heavy hinge hasp, which is a staplearticle of hardware. It is riveted to thecommutator lid, and the single swivelw

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