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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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plant of thecompany last sunnner. It madenecessary, liowever, a large increasein the elevated rolling stock equip-ment to replace the steam trains.Not even the extensive work of re-construction and re-equipping of theold steam coaches and iniscellaneouselevated passenger car equipment, asinaugurated last year at the largeThirty-Ninth Street repair shops ofthe company, could supply the neededequipment fast enough to satisfy thedemand. As was noted in the articles uponthe reconstruction work in the Aug.13 and 20, 1904, issues of this jour-nal, the elevated cars have beenpractically rebuilt in those shops,being heavily strengthened in allparts and, in addition, equip))ed ac-cording to the newly-adopted stand-ards of under rigging, brake and draft rigging, platform standards, electric wiring, inside detail,etc. The relniilt cars have been turned out very rapidly, andup to the present time fully 400 cars have been passed throughthis heavy overhauling process. But it was foreseen early last
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THE NEW SEMI-C(iX\ EKTIBLE C.\R W ITH STEEL UXDERERAMING EUR THE BROOKLYNELEVATED LINES cars may be made available for either elevated or surface oper-ation. This is necessary, as the elevated lines leading to ConeyIsland and the other ocean resorts cover more than half oftheir mileage upon railways upon the surface, using the former May 6, 1905.) STREET RATEW.W JOURNAL 805 steam-operated lines. As to dimensions, also, the cars rcsemlilethose at present in use upon the elevated lines of this company.The total length of the cars over all is 49 ft., while that overthe closed portion of the body is 40 ft. From this may be notedthe generous widths of platforms that have been provided, thisbeing an important feature when operating under conditions ofheavy city traffic. The extreme width of the 1iody is 8 ft. 7 ins.,while the height over all is 12 ft. 6 ins. CAK I^RAMXNG Accompan)ing drawings illustrate the interesting featuresof construction of the steel underframing and the body fram-ing.

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