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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.
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ft.with No. o tinned wire. Octagon poles painted an olivegreen are employed. The span wire is 5-16-in. 7-strand galvanized steel cable. The trolley wire is No. o harddrawn wire, tested to a tensile strength of 4400 lbs. The cars were built by the St. Louis Car Company andare mounted on Dupont trucks. The car bodies are fin-ished in cream, red and black and silver trimmings; thenumbers are in gold leaf and the words Meadville Trac-tion Company in silver on the sides. The cars are equippedwith the Syracuse changeable electric headlight and haveeleven incandescent lights in addition to the headlights,and electric push buttons between the windows on a drybattery circuit. Each car is equipped with two G. E. 35h.p. motors and is heated by American electric heaters.The seats are of split cane and the interior of the cars arefinished throughout in hardwood. Each car is 20 ft. longby 7 ft. 4 ins. wide, and weighs about 15,000 lbs. They havea seating capacity of thirty people each. The company
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VERTICAL BOILERS—MEADVILLE begins operation with eight of these cars for city andsuburban use, and will increase the number to thirteen. The power house, car house and other buildings of thecompany are on Chestnut street and are of brick and stone.The car house is 130 ft. x 60 ft. with yvalls 20 ft. high. Ithas a gable roof covered with slate. Four car tracks enterthis building, and each track has storage room for fourcars, making the storage capacity of the building 16 carsin all. One of the tracks covers a long car pit for use inmaking minor repairs and for cleaning cars. In the rear part of the building are two large rooms.One is fitted up as a complete machine shop for generalrepair work, and the other contains a track and pit wellequipped for making repairs to the car body or truck. The power house is 130 ft. x 95 ft., with 28 ft. walls, 18ins. thick. It has a steel truss roof with sheathing of 2-in.Georgia pine, covered with slate. The engine room is 102ft. x 60 ft. It contain

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