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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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TiIt 91 mm 1 kP m ⢠IdSttniyU JLBaLflBJV AkUb VESTIBULED SINGLE-TRUCK CAR FOR TOLEDO way use, the former consisting of 296 cells of fifty-one plateseach, and the latter of 264 cells of forty-one plates each. Anextension to the power house has been commenced which willhave an additional 125-ft. stack. When completed it will con-tain two 3000-kw steam turbines, direct connected to alter-nating generators; two 1000-kw rotary converters; one 1000-kvv motor-generator set, and four 700-hp boilers. Two sub-stations are soon to be built, in each of which will be installedtwo 500-kw rotary converters and accessories. When these ad-ditions are made, the capacity of the station will be 15,000 kw.The railway company has used cars built by the KuhlmanCompany for a number of years, and has also a considerablenumber of double-truck cars of the Brill semi-convertible type.The new cars are 20 ft. 8 ins. long over the bodies and 30 ft.1 in. over the vestibule sheathing; width over sills, 7 ft. 8y2
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INTERIOR OF THE TOLEDO SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR ins., and over posts at belt, 8 ft. The distance from the centerto the center of the side posts is 2 ft. 5 ins.; height from thefloor to the ceiling, 8 ft. \lA ins.; height from the track to theunder side of the sills, 2 ft. 2-Hs ins.; height from the underside of the sills over the trolley board, 8 ft. iil/2 ins.; heightfrom the track to the platform step, 14/4 ins.; from the stepto the platform, 12 ins., and from the platform to the car floor,7% ins. The side sills are y/& ins. x 5 ins.; end sills, 3>^ ins. x83/6 ins.; sill plates, 15 ins. x V6 in.; thickness of corner posts,3JHs ins., and side posts, 2^/4 ins. The interiors are finished incherry, with birch veneer ceilings, neatly decorated. The seats,which are of Brill manufacture, are 35 ins. long, and becausethe pockets for the window sashes are in the roof instead of inthe side walls, the seat ends are placed between the posts andagainst the side lining, leaving the aisle 22 in

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