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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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INTERIOR OF CAR FOR MEXICO CITY. paneled cars. The intensely dry climate encountered in that altitude in the tropics is very severe on wood work. Another unusual feature which gives the car a somewhat odd appearance is the division of the sash lights into four parts. This arrangement is only used in second class cars, the first class have the usual sashes with single lights. The cars run in but one direction, therefore the entrances are on one side, and vestibules at one end. The cars are very substantially
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built, including in the bottom framing 8.x5^-in. sill-plates and heavyunder trusses; side sills of long leaf yellow pine are 4^ x 714 ■and the end sills 5^x6?^ in. The corner posts are 4/2 in. thickand the side posts, 2^ in. The general dimensions are as follows:Length over end panels, 30 ft. 8 in., and over crown pieces, 40 ft.I in. Length of baggage compartment, 10 ft. 5 1-16 in.; width oversills and sill plates, 8 ft. 2 in.; between centers of posts, 2 ft. 8 in. Height of steps, 17.)^ in., and of risers, 14 in. The cars areequipped with angle iron bumpers, Dumpit sand bo.xes, Dedendagongs, ratchet brake handles and folding gates made by the J. G.Brill Co., and the trucks are No. 27-G, also made by that company.

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