Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-09-19
INEW CARS AND new TRACK
General Overhauling of the
Rolling Stock Is in Pro
gress-All the cars Will
Be Painted Yellow on the
Entire System.

Supt. S. H. Mitchell of the Phoenix
Railway Co. has been engaged for a
long time in the work of bettering the
city railway system and planning for
greater things in the future. His op-
erations have attracted no attention
for his methods of treatment have
been constitutional rather than local
In other words while he has been
under construction on First avenue,
he has been engaged in a general in
ternal reorganization of things, the
result of which will be apparent in the
near future.
In the first place all the old cars
which Manager Mitchell, as well as
everybody else knows are badly run
down, are being overhauled as fast as
possible and put in good shape. one
new car has been built in the local
shop and another is under way; three
new cars have been brought from the
coast and are lacking only a few
touches in the equipment, and three
more were ordered last week. The
new cars are ali painted a standard
yellow and the old ones are being
painted as fast as possible. so that
L., 81. oil la rsrfl h.s
yellow. Then, new system of class
flying them by number is being
adopted and where necessary the
numbers on the old cars are being
changed Finally the Washington
street line is To have new steel and
new ties and the work of making that
improvement will be undertaken in a
very. few days in all probability. much
of the material for it being now on
hand.
All this means that if Mr.. Mitchelrs
plans carry, by fair time he will have
ones having a larger seating capacity
than the old ones, and they will all
run more smoothly, look better, and
have a better road to run over.
In the matter of classifying and
numbering the cars according to the
new system there will be four classes,
none of them full at the present time.
as there will be ten numbers in a
class, thus accommodating 40 cars,
but the number will Indicate the class
to which any particular car belongs.
Numbers l to 9 will be small closed
cars with the end seats outside; num-
bers 10 to 10 will be open cars; num-
bers 20 to % will be the long cars,
half open and half closed; numbers
30 to 40 will be large closed cars,
and as mentioned all will be yellow.
The three new cars from California
that are now in the barn awaiting
some of the registry devices, have
single trucks and double motors. Each
car has two 35-horse power motors.
The advantage of these is that the
cars will run a great deal more
smoothly than the old ones, being
more equally balanced.
Number 10, the first open car. is
a new car that has been built in the
company's shops here and is the best
one of the four of home manufacture.
Like the other three it win go into
commission just as soon as the regis
try equipment is placed. Number IL
is a duplicate of Number 10 and is
now about half finished 1t will be
ready for use in about sixty days. be-
ing built by the shop men when they
are not engaged in repair work on
other cars
Number 81 is one of the old, long,
green cars, half open and half closed,
one of those that dropped down at
either and as though they were tired
and wanted to rest This has been
painted yellow and given a general
overhauling, in sense, almost re-
built 1t has a new roof, new truss
rods have been put beneath to
straighten it up in line and it has
been completely rewired. 1t is an IL
lustration of what will be done to
the other three similar old cars just