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Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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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AUTO COACH FOR THE CITIZENS TRANSIT COMPANY The Citizens Transit Company intends to operate twenty-fiveor thirty of these coaches from Campus Martius, in the heartof the city, over the bridge to Belle Isle. This is one of the fewsections of the city not served by trolley lines, and doubtlessthe new coaches will do a large business from the start. Asthe illustrations show, the coach is excellently planned for con-venience, compactness and strength. The stairway to the roofis neatly arranged and occupies little space, and the motor-mans cab is also compact. All the windows, including those in the motormans cab, are arranged to drop into pockets. Themotors are supplied by a storage battery placed in a box sus-pended under the coach. The length of the coach body is 14 ft. 6 ins., and the totallength over the crown pieces, 20 ft. 6 ins.; from the end panelsover crown pieces at either end, 3 ft. The width over the sills,including the panels, is 4 ft. 3% ins., and over the posts at the
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INTERIOR OF AUTO COACH belt, 6 ft. The sweep of the posts is 9)4 ins.; distance fromcenter to center of posts, 3 ft. 6^4 ins. The side sills are 3% x7 ins., and the end sills, 3 ins. x 3^4 ins. The corner posts are3^ ins. thick, and the side posts, 2 ins. The steps are 12 ins.from tread to tread, and the lower step, 15 ins. from the pave-ment. The wheel base is 11 ft. 8 ins., and the wheels, 36 ins.in diameter. ♦♦♦ A NEW FARE RECEIPT FOR THE VIENNA TRAMWAYS The fare ticket shown in the accompanying illustration is animproved form which has just been adopted on several of thestreet railway lines operated by the Vienna municipality. When this ticket is used for a straight trip the conductorpunches a hole above the line Stadtische Strassenbahnen(Municipal Street Railways), but when transfers are desiredthe ticket is punched below this line. The Roman numerals atthe top of the slip denote the zones traversed by the lines,whose names are printed in the middle of the ticket. It will b

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