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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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ng and evening. Maximum strength combined with smallest permissibleweight. Adoption of all precautions calculated to reduce possibilityof damage from either the electric circuit or from collisions. The clearance and length of the local station platforms lim-ited the length of trains, and tunnel clearances the length andwidth of the cars. The speeds called for by the contract with the city intro-duced motive power requirements which were unprecedentedin any existing railway service, either steam or electric, anddemanded a minimum weight consistent with safety. As an quent stops, it was equally as essential to provide the strongestand most substantial type of car construction throughout. Ahappy solution of the problem seemed to lay in the use of steelcar construction, but the limitations of car building- facilitiesprevented a sufficiently early production in steel at first. Owing to the two essentials of lightest weight consistentwith strength, however, which were embodied in their con-
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END VIEW OF THE STEEL CAR October 8, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 635 struction, it can safely be asserted that the car constructionfinally adopted for use in the subway represents the highesttype of the car building art as it exists to-day, and that allavailable appliances for securing strength and durability inthe cars and immunity from accidents have been introduced. After having ascertained the general type of cars whichwould be best adapted for the subway service, and before plac-ing orders, it was decided to build sample cars embodying theapproved principles of design. From these the managementbelieved that the details of construction could be more per-fectly determined than in any other way. Consequently, in theearly part of 1902, two sample cars were built and equippedwith a variety of appliances and furnishings so that the finaltype could be intelligently selected. From the tests conductedon these cars, the final type of car which is described in detailbelow was evolved. In

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