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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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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FIG. 27.—STANDARD FREIGHT MOTOR CAR WITH LOAD OF SAWDUSTAND CORD WOOD covered with asbestos paper and wound with broom wire. Thecompany has a parlor car called the Portland, shown in Fig.27, which has been fitted over from an old car that was thoughtto be worthless. It is used by officials in inspecting the roadand for private parties. The freight equipment of the road at present comprisestwenty box-cars and 137 flats, all M. C. B. standard, withpatent couplers and air-brakes and having capacities rangingfrom 30,000 lbs. to 50,000 lbs. These cars are built by the com-pany at its own shops, and the experience has been that thecars could hardly be built fast enough to meet the demand forthe increasing freight traffic. For handling the freight equip-ment four electric freight motor cars have been built, they be-ing of the type illustrated in Fig. 27. A 40-ft. box-car is usedwith motormans cabs enclosed at each end. These cars areequipped with four GE 73 motors, and can haul a heavily F

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