Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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uld be put into effectas soon as the traffic department of the company couldarrange the change. He said that a delegation had beentold by Ralph Peters, president of the company, about sixmonths ago that the question of fare would be carefully (Vol XXXVIII, No. 3. considered. Despite this a bill had been passed by theLegislature designed to compel the reduction in fare andimposing severe penalties. This bill the Governor vetoedbecause it tended to usurp the power of the commission. The assurance that a reduction would be made satisfiedCommissioner Cram and those who were in attendance, andit was announced that a formal order in regard to the re-duction would be issued by the commission. HOOPS FOR TRAIN ORDERS The Puget Sound Electric Railway, which operates ob-servation-car trains between Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.,uses hoops, as shown in the accompanying illustration, fordelivering train orders while trains are under way. Thisplan of operation is followed at any way station where it is
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Delivery of Orders with Hoops, Puget Sound ElectricRailway desirable to deliver orders to a train without causing it tostop. Usually the hoops are used for delivering ordersconferring rights of trains or giving them a check on thetrain register, but they are never used for orders restrictingthe rights of trains. The hoops used are made of light wood, generally willow,and are fitted with a spring of brass wire to hold the order.The supply of hoops at a way station is equalized by theconductor throwing off a hoop at the same time that theoperator delivers one. The train operation on this road isin charge of F. A. Boutelle, superintendent. The Bradford Corporation Tramways, Bradford, Eng-land, operated several illuminated floats over its lines dur-ing the recent coronation festivities. The arrangement ofthese cars was intended to symbolize a crown upon apedestal, the crown proper being in gold bronze suitablylined. The crown band was perforated, and behind werefixed colored celluloids an

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