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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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sun. Through this mass of water and mudthe surface cars of Merida, which are now operated by horses, 636 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXL No. 17. have to plow their way, and will until the paving of the city iscompleted. With the paving of the city with modern American pave-ments, new 8-in. girder rails are being laid, to be followed laterby new cars and a trolley service. The pavements are of brick,asphalt and bitulithic, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.Their effect will be to make this old historic city a modern onewith high-class American trolley lines in full operation. *■ ^> CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR BUTLER, PA. The J. G. Brill Company has lately finished four of its pat-ented convertible cars for the Butler Passenger Railway Com-pany, making the third order for this t3pe of car from this com-pany. As convertible cars have been in use in Butler for anumber of years the order is particularly interesting, as show-ing the satisfaction given to both public and company. The
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) 111- jii 1 jj:r c( )X\ krtj ijj management reports the older car bodies are in excellent con-dition, and the sashes and panels do their work as well as atfirst. Butler is a busy though small city, situated about 40miles north of Pittsburg. A fine large amusement park isowned by the trolley company. The cars make a handsome appearance, as the illustrationsshow. The double corner posts and vestibule posts which givesupport to the roof are of Ti)i-m. thickness. The side sills are5^4 ins. X 6 ins., plated with ys-in. x 6-in. steel. The platformtimbers are reinforced with angle-iron, and strengthened andprotected by angle-iron bumpers. The end sills are 4^4 ins. x6 ins. The side posts have a thickness of 3% ins. and a sweepof 5 ins. Grooves in the posts, over which the panels andsashes slide into the roof pockets, are entirely of metal, thuspreventing sticking and keeping the action of these slidingparts uniformly easy. The posts are 2 ft. 6 ins. from center tocenter. The general dimensi

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