Railway equipment notes.

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The Canada Atlantic built about 400 box cars at its Ottawa shops last year, also a number of refrigerator cars. A report having been circulated in the middle of Dec. that the shops were being shut down as a result of the acceptance by the Montréal Harbor Commissioners of the proposal of the Conners elevator syndicate, General Manager Chamberlain said: "The reason why the car shops have been temporarily closed is not on account of the elevator scheme at all. We have run out of car sills & wheels, & as soon as we receive the necessary supply we will resume operations." A novel method of ventilating passenger cars & clearing them of smoke has been introduced on several of the smoking cars on the Philadelphia & Reading. The device consists of three 2 bladed fans suspended from the top of the ventilators & operated by a small air motor located upon the roof of the car. The motion of the car operates the air motor, its speed being regulated entirely by the speed of the train, & that in turn operates the fans upon the inside of the car, keeping up a continuous air circulation & forcing the smoke & foul air out through the ventilators. The fans are so arranged that they can be disconnected from the motor by a very simple process. Beside clearing the cars of smoke & foul air, the fans tend to keep the cars cool in summer. The device is said to have originated on this line.—Railway Review.

Railways: C.A.Ry.

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