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Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (find matches)
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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win-dow pockets, the ends of the seats are broughtwithin the posts and against the side lining.The seats are 35 ins. in length, and the aisle is25 ins. wide. This illustration also shows theexcellent arrangement of lights. The platformsteps are 15^5 ins. over the rails, and the dis-tance from step to platform is 14 ins., fromplatform to car floor 8 ins. The car is equipped with a.numberof Brill specialties, including angle-iron bumpers, radial draw-bars, Dedenda gongs and conductors gongs. OVERHEAD AND SIDE CURRENT COLLECTIONBY FLEXIBLE ROD through an arc of about 180 degs., and is easily adjustablewherever there is a change in the character of the overheadstructure. This adjustment may be obtained through regula-tion by the motorman or automatically by projections placedat the proper points along the line. The several positions which may be assumed by this currentcollector are shown by the broken lines in the accompanyingFig. 1. The inner end of the collector is attached to a revolv-
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For the convenience of its passengers the St. Louis TransitCompany in future will sell $1 ticket books, as it has the $5books in the past. The books may be obtained at the companysoffices or at the car houses. There will be no reduction as aninducement to buyers. As a reason for making up the ticketsinto $1 books, A. B. Du Pont, second vice-president of thecompany, said that it was in compliance with a demand in thepast for tickets in book form to be sold for $1. PASSENGER CAR FOR THE BLOOMINGTON & NORMAL RAILWAY ing axis, which rests on an insulated base. By means of aspring connected to this axis the collecting rod may be re-volved and kept in any desirable position throughout its range.To provide for the possible shifting of the power wire, therods are somewhat longer than usually required. This excesslength is shown in Fig. 1, by the projection of the rod beyondthe broken arc. The portion of the rod within the smaller arcis not used for contact, as the pressure along this part

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