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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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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NARRAGANSETT CAR FOR ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION INTERIOR OF PORTLAND SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR pany operates lines between Portland andVancouver, Wash., a distance of 20 miles.Thirteen miles of new single track have beenrecently constructed, so that now the com-pany is operating some 52 miles of lines. Theseating arrangement of the cars provides forforty passengers. At the corners are placedlongitudinal seats for four passengers each;the hand rails only extend over these seats.The transverse seats are 33 ins. in length, andthe aisles are 19J/2 ins. wide. The interiorsare handsomely finished in quartered oak withceilings of the same neatly decorated. The length of the bodies is 28 ft. and thewidth 7 ft. 3*4 ins. over the sills and panels,and 7 ft. 6 ins. over posts at belt; sweep ofposts, 1^4 ins., from center to center of posts,2 ft. 8 ins. The platforms are vestibuled, andare 5 ft. 2*4 ins. from panel over crown piece.From rails to platform steps is isV- ms-> an^from steps to platforms, 14 i

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