Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-11
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Queen Consolidated Mining company. This terminal is quite close to the Mag. the Spray, the Gardiner and the Holbrook shafts. The line going to the city of Bisbee, leaves Lowell. goes along Naco Road. enters the city of Bisbee along Naco Road and climb ing the slag dump hill terminates in the Plaza at the foot of Brewery Gulch.
 The Warren-Bisbee Railway is one of the best equipped roads to be found in the country. It's cars are of the most modern type with a seating capacity of forty persons and stand ing room for seventy-fiYe more. The platforms of the cars are extremely large and capacious, being eight feet six inches wide and six feet long. The car body of the inside is thirty feet long and eight feet six inches wide. The seats are upholstered in rattan, are reversible and are sufficiently wide to be as comfortable as it is possible to make such a seat. The space between one seat and the ne is two and one half inches larger than is ordinarily given in a street car. thus affording a space which will not inconvenience the largest persons, and affording them ease and comfort wSile riding in the car.
 The cars are equipped with auto matic air brakes. This brake is not usually put upon street cars, because 1t is very expensive to install over other types of brakes, but it has the advantage that should anything hap pen to the brake system while the car is in operation, the brakes ap- ply themselves. The difference in this respect over direct air system used generally on street cars lies in the fact that in direct air system, should any accident occur while in operation 1t is impossible to apply the brakes. There are on these cars three means of stopping the car. It may be check ed either by the use of the automatic brakes, by the use of hand emergency brakes or by reversing the motors and these three means are an insur- ance for the safety of the passengers, which has been made necessary by the steep grades which were unayoid- able.
 The line crosses the Southwestern system three times, but the company has gone to the expense in each case of either providing an overhead or an undergrade crossing, thus avoid ing any possibility of the accidents which are so frequent where a street car system crosses a steam railroad at grade.
 The cars are equipped with the lat est type of control system which IS known as The Multiple Unit Sys- tenn" This means that any number of cars may be operated from the front platform of the first car and at the same time control all motors in the train in the same manner as the motors on the first car are controlled. It admits of any number of cars be- ing connected in one train and be In the absolute control of the motorman on the front platform. The cars are very heavily powered, having four forty hourse power motors, which may inNa an emergency exert almost four hundred horse power. The cars have push buttons at each seat, so that the passenger may notify the motorman when wishing to leave tne car. SIS E.r
 There will be placed along the line signs which will indicate the stop ping points and these will be as ire uuent as the traffic demands. A large proportion of the track is laid with rails which weigh eighty pounds to the yard, which were necessary on account of the heavy grades and ire quent curves in the line. Within the cities of Bisbee and Warren the sixty pound rail adapts itself better to the paving conditions than the eighty pound rail, being not so high or broad.
 Tae overhead construction line is of the most modern type and is some of the best work that has been done in the West.
 The line from Warren to Bisbee is 4.7 miles in length and the line from Warren to the machine shops is ap- proximately four miles. The cars in going from Warren to the machine shops reach an elevation of 347 feet in schedule time of 15 minutes and il going from Warren to Bisbee attain an elevation of BIT feet in approxi- mately 9 minutes.
 The power plant of the Warren. Bisbee railway is situated at the Oli- yer shaft, which is about the center of the road of the railway system. In this plant there are two Westinghouse Parsoas steam turbines which will supply power to the system. The smaller one has approximately 400 horse power and the larger one 670 horse power. There is in the system, in addition to the trolley, 75,000 feet of 4 per cent copper feeder cable. r
 The company has erected in War ren handsome all-steel car barn, which has accommodation for it's present six cars and three more when the company finds it necessary to use