Electric railway review (1906) (14574309797)

Identifier: electricrailwayr19amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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These serveto indicate the door peculiarly adapted to any particular classof structure. The features to be considered in specifying aparticular type of door are also fully covered. Features ofconvenience, such as wire glass panels for furnishing lightand wicket doors in large rolling doors, are also shown. Theworking drawings showing the device peculiarly adapted forbridging the space occupied by rolling steel shutters in thecar house of electric lines, as well as a continuous-current de-vice, are features of the catalogue. 100 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIX, No. 3. DANVILLE CARS FOR MEXICO. WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY REORGANIZATION. The Danville Car Company, Danville, 111., has recentlybuilt for the street railway system ot Parral, Mexico, four ofits semi-steel semi-convertible motor car bodies for first-classservice. The length of the body of each car over corner postsis 19 feet 035 inches; total length over bumpers, 28 feet 5£,inches. The width over all is 8 feet 2 inches. Two second-
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Danville Semi-Steel Cars for Mexico—First-Class Passenger Car. class closed trailer car bodies of the same dimensions werealso built at Danville for this street railway system. The interior finish of the cars, including doors, sashes andmoldings, is of ash. The side sills are of yellow pine with asteel plate between. Subsidiary sills on each side for the truckare also framed of yellow pine,while the end and cross sills are ofoak. The body framing is of ashand the longitudinal rails and platesof yellow pine. The sides of thecars are covered longitudinally withtongued and grooved yellow pineand from the arm rail down are cov-ered with No. 14 sheet steel inpanels. The interior sides of thecar are of No. 14 sheet steel rivetedtogether in one length and formingan interior truss. The roof is ofthe monitor deck type, extendingthe entire length of the body. The first-class motor cars have^ve cross seats on each side andfour longitudinal seats in thecorners, of Hale & Kilburn manu-factur