Equipment
A fleet of fifty suburban cars built by St. Louis Car Company was placed into service in 1902. Later interurban cars purchased were the wood frame trussbar 800 series from Jewett Car Company in 1912, the all-steel and faster 700 series cars from Southern Car Company in 1916, thirteen 1939-purchased 1000 series former Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad Red Devil cars, and the round end 1030 from the former Indiana Railroad interurban. All except the 1000 series cars could be, and often were, run together in two or three car trains, including combinations of both the 800 and 700 series cars. Across the years, equipment modifications were made by the Fairview shops. The 700 series steel cars were converted from center-entrance two-man crew to one-man cars. A classic arch window interurban coach typical of 1910 construction was 812. It was rebuilt in the LVT shops as a private car and later converted to regular service. A classic interurban, it operated to the last day of rail operation in 1951. The LVT color scheme was an all red body with silver roof until the lightweight 1000 series cars arrived in 1939. Some of the fleet was then retired and the rest repainted white with red trim and silver roof.Restored LVT car 801 is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as part of a growing trolley and interurban collection.
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Famous quotes containing the word equipment:
“At the heart of the educational process lies the child. No advances in policy, no acquisition of new equipment have their desired effect unless they are in harmony with the child, unless they are fundamentally acceptable to him.”
—Central Advisory Council for Education. Children and Their Primary Schools (Plowden Report)
“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”
—Betty Rollin (b. 1936)
“Dr. Scofield’s equipment, which you have just seen, radiated waves direct to Professor Houghland’s laboratory. When these waves came in contact with those the professor’s equipment was radiating, they created the interstellar frequency, which is the death ray.”
—Joseph O’Donnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi)