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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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the ends andside of cars when not in use. Six camp stools are also carriedon hooks from the roof. The windows have two sashes and bottom sash raises 22 ins. Window heads are oval and haveart glass. The interior finish is all cherry. The window shadesare pantasote, with Forsythe spring rollers. The seats are theHale & Kilburn walk-over pattern, upholstered with blackpantasote. The heaters are Consolidated Electric. Nichols-Lintern air-sanders,Wagenhals headlights, Eclipse car-fendersand Van Dorn couplers are other items of equipment. Thecars are mounted on Peckham M. C. B. No. 40 trucks, and areequipped with four G. E. No. 57 motors. They are operatedby the G. E. Type M. multiple control system, and have West-inghouse air brakes. The company has one 50-ft. express car, which is fitted with75 hp motors, and has unusually low gear, as it is the intentionto use it as a locomotive and haul standard steam freight cars.A feature of the car is the fact that it is fitted with special ice-
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BRIDGE IN SNYDER PARK racks, so that the drip will not injure the woodwork and wiring.The company expects to handle considerable ice from a lakeon its line, and it will also haul considerable produce anddressed meat that will be benefited by the refrigerator feature.The company has an arrangement with the Detroit SouthernRailway (steam) for handling its freight cars, ; nd it hopes tomake similar arrangements with other steam roads in thisvicinity. At Maitland the company has track connection withthe Detroit Southern and the Erie roads, and at Troy with theCincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway. The prospects forcar-load freight business are very promising. At Christians-burg and Casstown the advent of the road has induced the erec-tion of grain elevators and warehouses for coal, lime and lum-ber, and the company has placed connecting tracks to theseestablishments. Freight and ticket offices will be maintainedin these towns. The freight house at Springfield is a brick July 23, 1904.

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