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The Street railway journal (1902) (14761148085)
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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries
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high. The car taperstoward the top to conform to the subway, and this makes it lookeven longer than it really is. One of the cars (No. i) is namedAugust Belmont and the other (No. 2) John B. McDonald. It isthe purpose of the company to operate five and eight-car trains,and it is also intended to have parlor cars and ordinary coaches.Car No. I is finished as a parlor car and No. 2 as an ordinary end sills are of steel, fitted with heavy steel anti-telescoping plates.The side framing of the car bodies is of white ash, doubly bracedand very heavily trussed. The platform posts are of compound construction, with anti-telescoping posts of steel bar sandwiched between heavy whiteash posts at corners and centers of vestibule platform. Theseposts are securely bolted to the steel longitudinal sills, also tosteel anti-telescoping plate below the floor and to the hood bow,which serves to reinforce it and is of heavy steel angle in onepiece, reaching from plate to plate and extending back into car
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INTERIOR OF CAR NO. I INTERIOR OF CAR NO. 2 coach. The constructive features in both are identical, but inmany details, such, for instance, as doors, windows, seats, lightingarrangements and minor features, they differ materially. Thecompany has had several classes of furnishings installed for pur-poses of comparison. These are seen in the views above. The most important consideration in the general design andconstruction of these cars is the factor of safety. Special pre-cautions have been taken to make the car bodies fireproof and to body six feet on each side. In case of accident, where one plat-form rides over the other, eight square inches of metal wouldhave to be sheared off in the posts before the main body of thecars would be reached. This would afford effective means of pro-tection. The floors are double with asbestos roll fire felt sandwichedbetween and the floor sheathing is of white pine completely cov-ered on the under side with 3-16 in. asbestos transite board. All Septe
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