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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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millboard J4 m- thick, each panel having an ornamentallincrusta border carried along the sides and ends. Hand straps forthe use of passengers are secured to a teak rail running the wholelength of the carriage on the sides of the clere-story. Brass baggage racks made of expanded metal, as well as hatand coat hooks, are provided along each side of the car. Thewhole neatly finished and lacquered. Ample ventilation is securedby means of hit-and-miss ventilators fitted to the sides of theclere-story, and hinged ventilators directly over the windows. In 654 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVI. No. 27. addition ten torpedo air extractors (five along each side of roof)are used. The roof is supported by channel steel carlines, and furtherstrengthened at the center by two T steel arch bars, carried acrossthe roof and down the sides of each cant rail. These carlines arecovered with ornamental teak facings. The whole of the body framing is made of well seasoned teak, Duplex Car for Soudertown, Pa.
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DUPLEX CAR FOR SOUDERTOWN the side framing is trussed with diagonal braces, strap bolts andvertical tie rods. The whole of the underframe is of rolled steel channel section,firmly bound together with knees and gusset plates. The truck frames are of pressed steel made by the Leeds ForgeCompany. The truck centers are of cast steel with ample wearingsurface and are mounted on spring bolsters also of pressed steel. The axles are of best Siemens-Martin steel with wheel seats4 ins. in diameter. The tires are 4^2 ins. wide x 2 ins. thick and ofSiemens-Martin steel. The wheels have wrought-iron bosses withteak centers and have Mansells retaining rings. The wheels areforced on to the axles by hydraulic pressure of not less than 50tons, without keys. The cars are arranged with platforms at each end 3 ft. 3 ins.long with Golds American automatic locking gates on each sideof platform. The platform is further protected by iron screens4 ft. 6 ins. high, with cross-over pro-tected by chains. As a fu

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