Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy (find matches)
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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r uses. Students have long found it profitableto work in the summer on trolley cars as motormen or con-ductors, in summer hotels or in shops. In some cases wherea knowledge of boating and swimming is required, vaca-tion work at a street railway park may be thoroughlyprofitable to both health and pocket. As a general thing,college students make excellent employees in dealing withthe public; their address and courtesy are valuable assets,and whether such men are utilized as ticket takers, super-visors of concessions, engineers of steam launches, or care-takers of t^ie property, there is not much doubt of theirusefulness to the company, and often at rates which are lessthan would be required to maintain a regular force at thepark throughout the entire week. 488 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIX. No. 12. ELECTRIC FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE BUILT BY THEBROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has just completedwliat is prol:)aljly tlie largest electric locomotive thus far
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END-ON VIEW OF BROOKLYN FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE BUILT hy a city railway. It will be used for hauling asmany as twenty standard freight cars from the Bush freightterminal docks and warehouses in South Brooklyn to ConeyIsland, about 5 miles distant. Although all of the companysfreight haulage to Coney Island is over rights of waycovered by its steam railroad charters, the steam haulageservice has been abandoned to reduce operating and main-tenance expenses, besides avoiding any further necessity ofoperating noisy steam locomotives through a highly-devel-oped suburban territory. In general appearance the new locomotive is a distinctdeparture from the sloping-end type, and resembles in ex-terior appearance the New Haven Railroads single-phaselocomotives for passenger operation. It is 31 ft. long overall and 7 ft. 3J4 ins. wide over the side sheathing. Thetotal weight including the apparatus is about 57 tons. Theunderframe is made up of 2y\-\n. x 6-in. bar iron used forthe double purpose of in

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