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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. 18.—TUNNEL AT LYON STATION for running backward, and the double-controller cars maybe used when switching is resorted to for changing thedirection of travel. One of the double-controller motor cars is shown in Fig.22 standing in the yard of the car house. A steep inclinecommunicates with the Ceinture Railroad above, wheresome car bodies may be seen on the freight cars ready forunloading. The motor cars, 29 ft. 6 ins. in length, arefurnished by the Ateliers de Construction du Nord de laFrance, whose factories are at Blanc-Misseron (Nord).Double frames are provided, one to support the car bodyand one for the truck, this design allowing the removal of
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FIG. 21.—INTERIOR OF VINCENNES CAR HOUSE the upper portion without interfering with the lower. Thetrailers, however, supplied by the Franco-Belgian Com-pany, of Raismes, have but one frame, painted black,while the upper frame of the motor cars is painted red, inorder to make them more readily distinguished by train 804 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVI. No. 35. hands and perhaps to give some brightness to the front of pressed into a socket on the motor car, providing by thisthe train. Both these car factories are close to Valen- means a connection to the controller and motors,ciennes, in the Department Nord of France. The car The motor cars are lighted by eight lamps of 16 cp,

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