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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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accompanying illustration shows a train of motor andfreight cars which is employed for handling ore on the linesof the Butte Consolidated Railway Company, of Butte, Mont.The cut shows the train at the foot of a n per cent grade, thefront car being on the commencement of a 9 per cent grade.The cars are each loaded with eleven tons of ore and it will beseen there are five trail cars and four motor cars. The train is rail. At the corner posts long angle irons secure the plates andtake a long bearing on them. On the outside of the cars a wideand deep corner plate of pressed steel covers the joints betweenthe letter board, corner post and the head pieces. These cornerpieces not only impart a great strength to that part of a car cor-ner which is usually weak, but they add greatly to the durabilityby protecting the joints from the entrance of water. At the pan-els and belt rail there are other plates completely defending allthe joints. The straps on the belt rails and other straps as far as
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made up with two motor cars in the center, one at the front andone near the rear. The trucks in use on the motor cars were furnished by thePeckham Motor Truck & Wheel Company, and the car bodieswere built by the Ramapo Iron Works. Double Truck Cars for the Metropolitan StreetRailway Company The Metropolitan Street Railway, of New York City, is havinga considerable number of new cars built for its electric service bythe J. G. Brill Company. These cars are particularly interest-ing because they are departures in many respects from ordinaryconstruction. They are also worthy of attention, as they are in-tended to meet the heaviest possible surface traffic and are to beoperated under the shortest practicable headway. Externally the features first striking the eye are the great length,which is 28 ft. over the end panels, 36 ft. over the dashers, and 38ft. over all. The colors are as usual, the standard of the road,cream for the concave and orange for the body panel. The dasher possible

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