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Identifier: streetrailwayj251905newy (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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ARRANGEMENT OF SMALLER COMPARTMENT sleeper. It is held by chains and spring rollers, similar to thoseused on Pullman berths. The casket rests on a sliding floor or shelf. When the casketis to be placed in the car, the door is let down, the sliding shelfis pulled out and tlie casket is placed on this shelf and firmly secured in place l)v means of pegs placed along the sides andends. The pegs go into holes in ihe slielf, there 1 icing severallines of these Iioles, so that any size of casket can be accommo-dated. The shelf bearing the casket is then pushed back intothe compartment and the door closed and locked. The exterior ami interior of the car is Unislicd in dark green.
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596 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 13. with heavy dark green draperies at the windows and doors.The seats are the Hale & Kilburn high-back type, with highroll-back and finished in dark green leather. The car is heatedwith Consolidated electric heaters. The car is mounted on Brill 27 trucks, with four GE 1000motors and Christensen air brakes. The car is named Elmlawn, after one of the large suburbancemeteries. A charge of from $25 to $35 is made for the useof the car, depending upon the distance it has to travel. It isengaged for most of the funerals going to the outlying ceme-teries, and the greater comfort, privacy and convenience of thefuneral car, as compared with horse-drawn coaches, seems tobe appreciated by the public. *^ THE OPERATION OF AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC TRACKSWITCHES BY SIDNEY DIAMANT The importance of developing every detail in street railwayoperation which will assist in the proper maintenance of car ser-vice schedules has for a long time been recognized by ope

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  • bookid:streetrailwayj251905newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:28
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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