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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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ture. All the original appli-ances, the grip, the rails, the slots, etc., areshown in position. The track on which thecar rests is raised several feet above the floor,giving a good view of the grip and under-ground construction. The car bears the nameClay Street Hill Railroad Company, and wasused in San Francisco in 1873. To those who have not had shop experiencewith the early types of electric motors and carapparatus, the old car used by the TopekaRailway Company is of special interest. Thiscar was built by the St. Louis Car Companyin 1887, its first year of operation, and was incontinuous service until 1904. The car body is raised from the trucks toshow the motors and equipment. The motors are of the olddouble-reduction gear type. The gears as well as the armatureare unprotected. The controlling device is of the Thomson-Houston type, in which the rheostat, placed under the car, isoperated from the platform by rods and bevel gears. The knock down car, one of 650 sent to Buenos Ayres,
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THE DISPLAY OF BRASS CASTINGS, THE OLD STAGE COACHSHOWN ON THE RIGHT Argentina, will illustrate to many a new type of car construc-tion. To economize room in shipping, these car bodies are sobuilt that they can be easily taken apart and packed very com-pactly. The car as exhibited has its sides, top and ends wedgedaway, showing the method of construction. One platform is September 3, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 337 removed and crated, as in shipment. When so crated it is com-posed of three parts—the hood, the dash and the platform, withthe extending timbers. It is not generally known that many of the street cars ofLondon are of American construction. One of the type ofwhich several were constructed by the St. Louis Car Companyfor use in London is among the exhibits. The distinctive fea-ture of this car is that it is a double-decker, the roof beingutilized to carry as many passengers as the interior. Accessto the upper deck is gained by stairways on each platform. Thecar is elegan

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