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Identifier: streetrailwa318861887newy (find matches)
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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business rests. He is makingsome important improvements in car gear,which is their specialty, and reports a largeand growing demand for their suspendedgear, pedestals resting on lower end of alink which has at the top a recess in thetop of box to rest in, giving a free lateralmotion to the axle. This improvementhad much to do with the success of theChicago cable roads, as I remember; theyearly adopted it and were enabled withgreat economy of tractile power to use9 ft. wheel centers on curves of veryshort radius, as made necessary by narrowstreets. S. J. M. June, 1887. THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 491 The Stephenson Palace Street Car. About ten years ago the idea was agi-tated of doubling tramway tracks on ouravenue lines, reserving the two centraltracks for express cars and using the side cars of the Broadway line, and was finishedin a very handsome manner; but thedifficulty of doubling the tracks and thelack of popularity with same experimentalcars caused the abandonment of the plan.
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INTERIOR. ness will sbow poor stock quicker than astreet car harness. Having had large ex-perience in this, the designer is able togive our readers the one giving the bestsatisfaction, and readily being adopted bythose using a more complicated harness.This, also, will answer the purpose of agood plow harness. The trimmings usedare X silver, or Japan, and occasionallysolid brass, with close plate bit, and hames,but this adds quite an expense. Bridle.—£ in. patent leather blinds, withfancy patent leather, or harness leatherfront. Nose piece sewed in cheek, with astitched winker brace. Nickel rosettes. Collar and Hames. —Irish collar, ticklined, high top, red, Concord hames, withflat iron back, J x 3-16 iron, with No. 5,open bell, fastened to hame strap. Traces.—6 ft. long to the chain, lj in.two solid pieces, with 36 in. chain. Back Pad.—Single, 3 in. wide, with bil-let to buckle around the trace. Belly Band.—Folded, and buokled onboth sides, billet fastened to the tracebuckl

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:514
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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