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Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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FIG. 29.—TRAIN OF CARS FOR THE AURORA, ELGIN & CHICAGO RAILWAY railway men. In Fig. 27 a detail of the side framing andposts of these cars is given. From this it will be seen that theunusually large windows are easily disposed of in thepocket, which is closed by the usual window caps. One ofthe trivial details, often a matter of comfort to the wearypassenger which may be here mentioned, is the roundingof the interior mouldings. flooring and in the cross-section. The sills are plated withangle-iron, the bottom of the iron coming underneath thesills. Wrought-iron brackets are introduced at numerousplaces in the frame, greatly stiffening the joints. Theend-sill is plated apparently on both sides, and the unusualfeature of a second sill just behind the end-sill is introduced.There are but four continuous sills. The wood center sills
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FIG. 30.—CAR FOR AURORA, ELGIN & CHICAGO RAILWAY The Laclede Car Company, of St. Louis, Mo., has donea large amount of work in interurban cars, and one of itsstandard cars for this work is illustrated herewith in Fig.28. It presents some unusual features. As will be seen it isa car of moderate length, with street-car hood and vestibuleand single windows. The platforms are dropped so thatthe single step is brought within t6 inches of the ground. are but little more than fillers of their channel-iron plating.It will also be noticed that diagonals are introduced. This,with the numerous brackets, gives the frame a great amountof stiffness. The use of diagonals or their equivalents hasalways been insisted upon by steam railroad men as verynecessary to the durability of a car bottom. The car, without trucks, weighs about 24,000 lbs., and October 4, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 549 the total weight, including trucks and motors, is, approxi-mately, 40,000 lbs. This, it will be seen, fo

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo201902newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:575
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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