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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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atisfactory method, because it shows somany faults not indicated by other tests, but the application ofthis high potential method, with depleted insulation, usually de-velops the fault which it detects, and curtails the natural life ofarmatures and fields. A Large Suburban Car The Pennsylvania Traction Company of Lancaster, Pa., is oneof the largest suburban roads in the State outside of the Philadel-phia interurban lines. The practice of the company is especiallyinteresting, because it has tried many different kinds of cars, witha view to finding out which will accommodate its heavy traffic tothe best advantage. It is also interesting as showing the generaldirection or tendency of electric railways in the matter of carconstruction and design. The car is 28 ft. long and 38 ft. 8 ins.over all, built by J. G. Brill Company. It has curved sides, andis 7 ft. 5 ins. wide at the sill, and 8 ft. wide at the posts. The plat-forms are 4 ft. 6 ins. long, and the height to the sill from the head
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LONG CAR—LANCASTER, PA. of the rail is 30 ins. The step is 17 ins. from the head of the rail,and has a 12-in. riser to the platform. Each end of the car is provided with a stationary round-endvestibule, with doors folding against the vestibule. This is acomplete inclosure, and there is no entrance to the car until it hasstopped. The completely inclosed vestibule incidentally increasesthe profits of the road by encouraging riding through the winterweather by making it perfectly comfortable. The car is mounted on Brill Eureka maximum traction trucks.The wheel base is 4 ft. and the wheels are 33 ins. and 20 ins indiameter. There are two Westinghouse No. 38 motors. Thegage is 5 ft. 2)/2 ins. The car is furnished with twenty reversible-back seats, covered with spring rattan. This gives a seatingcapacity for forty persons. The inside finish is of cherrv withbirds-eye maple headlining. The trimmings are of bronzethroughout. There are two electric headlights and two Brillsand boxes. The buf

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