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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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INTERIOR VIEW OF BOONVILLE SUB-STATION CAR HOUSE OF THE EVANSVILLE-BOONVILLE LINE Three of the cars are of the combination baggage andpassenger type, while the others are for passengers alone.The car body, which is painted a Pullman green, is mountedon St. Louis Car Company trucks having wheel bases of 6ft, 3 ins. and fitted with steel-tired wheels. The trucks
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ONE OF THE COMBINATION PASSENGER AND BAGGAGE CARS carry four GE-56 motors. Three of the cars are providedwith type-M control and two with K-14 controllers. Thecars weigh complete 63,000 lbs. each. The one express car operated on the Boonville division isshown in an accompanying illustration. The car is 45 ft.long and measures 8 ft. 9 ins. over the sills. To avoid over-hang of the ends the trucks are placed as far apart as theclearance of the pilot permits. The arrangement of the enddoors is somewhat out of the ordinary. In each end a dooropening out onto the bumper occupies the space betweenthe right end corner post and the adjacent front post. service in emergencies only, consists of four closed andeight open passenger cars and three enclosed locomotiveswith lo-in. x 14-ii.. cylinders. The freight equipment con-sists of thirty-two standard gondolas and box cars, but itis the intention to increase this equipment by the purchase of additional gondolas to beused in coal shipments and by

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