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The Senators' Subway 



By L. W. Laiiini 



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With the Completion of the Senate Office Building in 1906 the 

 Necessity of a Subway from the Building to the Capitol Became 

 Apparent. The One Here Shown Has Just Been Comp'eted 



The Senate 

 Office Building 



The Capitol 



Plan of the Senate Subway. It Is Nearly a Block 

 Long and Its New Monorail Car Makes the 

 Trip from End to End of the Route in About 

 Thirty Seconds. The Car Is Equipped with 

 Two Seven and One Half Horsepower Motors, 

 Is Fitted with a Canvas Tread on the Wheels 

 to Deaden the Noise, and Is Constructed Al- 

 most Entirely of Steel with Oak Flooring. 

 It Is Neatly Finished in Mahogany and Ash 



The House of 

 Representatives 



ANEW nioiioniil car has been put 

 into operation in the subway be- 

 tween the Capitol building and the 

 Senate Office Building, at Washington, 

 D. C. A car of similar construction has 

 been in service up to now, but I lie old 

 car was slcjw and seated only twelve 

 persons. This new car, which was 

 designed and built under the direction 

 of the oftice of the Superintendent of the 

 Capitol, I'^Iliott Woods, has a seating 

 capacity of eighteen, makes faster time 

 and is less n(jisy. 



Built for the most part in the machine 

 shops of the Washington Navy Yard, 

 the new car makes about one hun- 

 dred and twenty-live round trips a day 

 in the tunnel, on what is perhaps the 

 shortest railway in the country, seven 

 hundred and fifty feel long. The car 



weighs two thousand five hundred 

 jjoiuids, is eighteen and ahalf feet o\'erall 

 and forty-six inches wide. 



One of the features of the new car is 

 the seal for the "motorman." He sits 

 in the center, and without getting out 

 of his place, makes the car go either 

 way. This, in itself, is a lime saver. 

 It is estimated that the car can make 

 twenly-fi\e miles an hour. It takes 

 just thirty .seconds to go from one end of 

 the subway to the other. 



The car is eciuipped with two seven 

 and one half horsepower motors, is 

 fitted with a canvas tread on the 

 wheels to deaden the noise, and is con- 

 structed almost enlireh- of steel with 

 oak floors, ll is finished in mahogany 

 and ash. 



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