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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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e else to take up this branch of transportation, which isgrowing more and more important year by year, and develop itproperly. We are confident that the managers of the electriclines will not quarrel with them over this arrangement, and surelythe traveling public can give no more emphatic sign of its ap-proval than is shown in the manner in which patronage is beingdistributed at present. 3^2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XX. No. t± Cars for the New York Subway The Interborough Rapid Transit Company is experimentingwith two cars which it had built as samples from specifications ofits engineers for use in the subway. These cars in general appear- protect the wiring so as to guard against electrical fires. Theframework is particularly heavy, and it is believed that the struc-ture is as nearly indestructible as can be attained in the presentcondition of the art. The longitudinal sills are of compound construction, with centercross-trussing between the steel needle-beams, and the platform
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SIDE VIEW OF THE AUGUST BELMONT ance differ materially from those in use on any other system inthe country. They are considerably longer, for instance, than theManhattan elevated cars and are not so high. The car taperstoward the top to conform to the subway, and this makes it lookeven longer than it really is. One of the cars (No. i) is namedAugust Belmont and the other (No. 2) John B. McDonald. It isthe purpose of the company to operate five and eight-car trains,and it is also intended to have parlor cars and ordinary coaches.Car No. I is finished as a parlor car and No. 2 as an ordinary end sills are of steel, fitted with heavy steel anti-telescoping plates.The side framing of the car bodies is of white ash, doubly bracedand very heavily trussed. The platform posts are of compound construction, with anti-telescoping posts of steel bar sandwiched between heavy whiteash posts at corners and centers of vestibule platform. Theseposts are securely bolted to the steel longitudinal sills,

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