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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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rought out and attached to the car toconvert it, the delay in doing this willbe so great as to lose the advantage inmaking the change. Again, whenparts of this kind are stored, thechances of detioration are certainly asgreat, if not greater, than when theyare carried on the car always ready for use. The company reports doing an excellent business, and has re-cently been receiving orders for cars of the same type as thatshown in the engraving from roads in Bellows Falls, Vt; Nelson,British Columbia; Lincoln, Neb.; Gardiner, Mass.; Allentown,Pa.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Schnectady, N. Y.; Bordentown, N. J.; Wil-mington, Del., and elsewhere, as well as from roads abroad. ■ A Massachusetts Suburban Car The accompanying engraving shows a type of car which hasproved quite popular upon a number or roads in Eastern Massa-chusetts. The car shown is one built by the Laconia Car Com-pany for the Blue Hill Street Railway, but the same car is usedon the Brockton & Plymouth Street Railway and others.
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Foundations have just been completed by the United Railways& Electric Company, of Baltimore, Md., for some very extensiverepair shops in that city. CLOSED CAR FOR BLUE HILL The car measures 40 ft. over all and has straight sides sheathedlike steam railroad cars. There are ten double sash windows oneach side, both sash being arranged to drop flush with the windowsill. As the window sill is only 27 ins. above the floor, this makespractically a summer and winter car. There are ten reversibleseats on each side, upholstered in rattan. The interior of the caris finished in quartered oak. The cars are furnished with theLaconia double trucks and Christensen air brakes. July 7, 1900.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 655 Combined Air and Circulating Pomp Long Cars for Rochester The accompanying illustration shows a new combined air andcirculating pump, recently brought out by the Conover Manufac-turing Company, of New York. The demand for economical results in modern power plants israpidly extending

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