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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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ur cars are run at present on a headway of from seven- teen to twenty minutes. On the level strip of line, acrossthe valley, a very high rate of speed is attained. The trip,including stops, is usually made in about thirty minutes. Thirty-five pound T rail is employed, and outside thecity limits the construction is of the ordinary steam rail-way type with gravel ballast. The rolling stock consists of over five closed cars andseven open cars, mostly built by the Pullman Company,there being two closed and one open car which werebuilt by the Woeber Brothers of Denver. Three types ofmotors are employed, there being two equipments of Edi-son fifteen horse power motors, three of Thomson-Hous-ton of same capacity, and three equipments of Westing-house twenty horse power motors. The cars are provided with fare boxes of the Nationaltype and with registers of the same make. The motor-men collect the fares, deposit them in the boxes, and ringup the registers. In summer, when the traffic is heavy,
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FIG. 2.—INTERIOR OF POWER STATION—FT. WORTH & ARLINGTON HEIGHTS RAILWAY. conductors are employed. Motormen are paid $45 amonth. The cars are equipped with electric heaters, of whichthree different types are employed, and the New Departurebell is employed for signaling. The car barn is located at the terminal of the line atArlington Heights, and consists of a wooden structure, oftasty design and of ample capacity for storing all thecompanys cars. There are pits and the usual appliancesfor the car and motor repairers. One portion is parti-tioned off and furnished for the superintendents office,and adjoining it is the store room. The power station, which is a small, brick structure,is located on the Clear Fork of the Trinity near thebridge where the line crosses the river and at the citylimits. The equipment consists of three Heine safetyboilers of no h. p. each, having Roney mechanical stok-ers, and the usual steam pressure carried is 125 lbs.Texas coal is employed, which costs

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