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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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FIG. 1.—INTERIOR VIEW OF CAR—BELLEVILLE, ILL. stand out in bold relief, and present an extremely tasteful appear-ance. The curtains are of red silk faced pantasote, mounted onspring rollers, and provided with St. Louis Car Companys wirecable fixtures. There are also twenty-four electric heaters in eachcar, one placed under each seat, thus insuring plenty of warmthfor passengers. The ceilings are of a very delicate blue, ornamented in gold, andthe electroliers, of fancy design, are in five-light clusters, withopalescent globes in center. Cars are also furnished with electricsignal bells, push buttons being placed at every seat. The outside construction of the car, as can be seen, is of steamrailroad type, with straight sides, heavy truss rods, etc. The carsare also equipped with two Wagenhals electric arc headlights, one 9*1?^
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FIG. 2.—EXTERIOR VIEW OF NEW INTERURBAN CAR—BELLEVILLE, ILL. ment. The seats are St. Louis Car Companys patent, leathercovered, walk-over type, twelve on each side of aisle, with aseating capacity of forty-eight passengers to the car. The cars have nine double sash on each side, with six closedpanels from outside, as shown in the illustration. The panels onthe inside of the car are fitted with large French beveled mirrors, at each end, of 5000 candle power each, which enables the motor-man to see an obstruction on the track as well at night as day. In addition to the air brakes, the cars are also equipped withSt. Louis Car Companys solid bronze ratchet hand brake, and arealso supplied with an air whistle, instead of a gong, as is ordinarilyused on street cars. The cars are painted Aurora red and light April, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. lemon yellow, a very pretty combination, with neat lettering andornamenting on the sides. Fig. 3 shows an electric locomotive which was built by

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