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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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ddition to the com-panys rolling stock, are 29 ft. 6 ins. in frame, 39 ft. overall and 40 ft. over bumpers. They measure 7 ft. 6 ins.wide over sills, and 8 ft. 2 ins. wide over belt rail, allowing34-in. seats on each side of the aisle, giving a very wideaisle space. The interior finish of the cars is quartered oak, withwhite birch veneer ceilings, handsomely decorated. Be-tween the second and third windows is placed a bulkhead,or partition, dividing the car into two compartments.The main compartment, or passenger room, is fitted withHale & Kilburns walkover seats, upholstered in rattan.In the smoking-room end of the car side seats of slats ofthe usual type are placed, giving a seating capacity of fouron each side, or eight in all, making the total seating ca-pacity of the car forty passengers. The sashes are doubleand fitted with polished plate glass; the upper light ispermanent. The lower sash is made to drop into the sideof the car below the belt rail. The lights in the deck are
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INTERIOR VIEWS OF bevel-edge with chipped center, and the glass in the enddoors are also bevel-edge, of plate. The end doors of thecars are double, mounted on contra-twist door hangers.The curtains are fitted with Burrowes Climax fixtures.The cars are fitted with especially long platforms, being5 ft. 3 ins. over all, detachable canopies and vestibulefronts. The outside is painted Tuscan red, and striped andnumbered in gold leaf, and lettered in aluminum leaf,which give very handsome effect. The cars are mountedon Peckham 14 A trucks, and are equipped with Westing-house No. 49 motors and Christensen air brakes. Thecars are equipped with New Haven registers and Johnsheaters. A large proportion of the companys business is the car- rying of freight and merchandise, of which the transporta-tion of milk forms a considerable item. To accommodatethis service the company has recently put on a new milkcar of the form illustrated on the preceding page. The line is especially built for high speed

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