The Street railway journal (1902) (14759291464)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo191902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



Text Appearing Before Image:
eam, as they can have severalmotors, which can be coupled in different ways. What is most necessary is standard pressures and currents.Each railway would then have, as at present, slow locomotiveswith great pull for shunting, for goods traffic and for suburban andstopping trains, and fast locomotives with less acceleration buthigher speed for through traffic. April 26, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 505 New Open Car for the Elevated Service of the BrooklynRapid Transit Company The accompanying illustrations show a new type of car which hasrecently been built in the shops of the Brooklyn Heights RailroadCompany, and which combines a number of novel and interesting sander, made by the Nichols-Lintern Company, of Cleveland,Ohio. Considerable thought has been put on this car in order that it mayconform as nearly as possible to the best principles in car building,as well as to the requirements of the service for which it is in-tended. General Manager J. C. Brackenridge, of the railway com-
Text Appearing After Image:
NEW TYPE OF OPEN CAR FOR BROOKLYN ELEVATED LINE features. The Brooklyn railway operates a combination surfaceand elevated service on its Coney Island and Brighton Beach lines,the trains running on the elevated structure while in the city andthen descending by grade to the surface. This car, therefore, isintended to be used where there are station platforms and wherethere are none. The steps are of a peculiar design to facilitateoperation under these conditions. When closed, as in the smallercut, the bottom of the lower step is brought level with the floor ofthe car, giving an additional width to the floor below the concavityof the seat end panel, and in this way providing a safe footholdbetween the floor of the car proper and the platform. The step,when down, reaches to within a convenient distance from theground and can be readily mounted from the level of the track.When the lower step is down extra rigidity is given to its positionby lugs which are formed by the turned over ends of