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Identifier: streetrailwayj261905newy (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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THE NEW STEEL CAR FOR THE NEW YORK CITY RAILWAY COMPANY, THE FIRST EVER USED ON A STREET RAILWAY the bottom of the side sill to the top of the eaves. The carlinesconsist of bent angles and run continuously from side post toside post across the car. The side posts are strengthenedlongitudinally by angle-iron bridge members between each twoposts at the window rail and at the tops of the windows. The outside panels are steel plates Y% in. thick. The lowerset of panels, running from the guard rail to the bottom of theside sills, are riveted horizontally under the guard rail and ver-tically at each post, so that in case of damage any panel can beeasily replaced. The guard rail is a special steel section, as
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INTERIOR OF NEW YORK STEEL CAR shown on the drawing, and is also divided into sections, butthe joints are flush and do not show in the finished car. Theguard rail is bolted to the side of the car. The side posts are connected at their upper ends by a con- form structure is riveted up complete in itself, but it is at-tached to the underframe by bolts, and when necessary to makerepairs either platform framing can be readily removed. Theend sill or bumper is a pressed-steel channel, curved to shape.The floor, both of the car body and of the platform, is l/?,-m.steel plate, riveted to all the members of both the body framingand platform. Over the steel floor in the aisle are laid maplestrip mats, treated, as previously explained, so as to be non-combustible. The side posts of the car are of channel section and run from tinuous pressed-steel member, which also forms a water shedover the windows. The upper and lower roofs are made ofcomposite board covered with canvas. At the lower eaves a

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