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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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t heavy inter-urban cars of the type known as the semi-empire Pullman,built by the Niles Car Manufacturing Company, of Niles,Ohio. They are handsomely upholstered, commodious andfitted with every means of comfort and convenience, includ-ing toilet room, electric heaters, overhead bundle racks, December 7. 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1109 coat hooks and lights of high candle-power. These cars,which have seating accommodation for fifty-two passengers,are 50 ft. 4 ins. in length and 8 ft. 10 ins. in width over all.Cars weigh, including trucks and motors, 70,000 lbs., andthere are two 75-hp motors on each truck. The wheelbase is 6 ft. 8,r4 ins. The schedule speed is 25 miles per this, directly behind the motorman, there has been left aspace for trunks and express packages. On each stationplatform may be seen a light, Fairbanks-Morse truck forhandling freight and baggage. The cars used in the local service within the city limitsof Milwaukee are duplicates of the ones used in the city of
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Street Rj. Journal PLAN OF COMBINED ROTARY CONVERTER STATION, PASSENGER OFFICE AND EXPRESS ROOM hour, including stops, with a possible maximum speed of54 miles per hour. The wheels are 36 ins. diameter. Thecars are equipped with straight air-brake equipments manu-factured by the Allis-Chalmers Company including thelatters new style OB pneumatic governor and type Jemergency valve. At the forward end of each car is aspacious smoking compartment, and, partitioned off from Detroit, with open rear platforms divided by a railing.These cars are equipped with 40-hp motors. The cars are41 ft. long and 8 ft. 5 ins. wide, and have rattan seatsplaced crosswise. They are single-ended, with the motor-mans vestibule entirely segregated from the platform.Each of these cars is equipped with Allis-Chalmers airbrakes. There are eight of these cars provided. The regu- I 110 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXX. No. 23. lar service will call for four in operation, maintaining a15-minute headway. Schedule spe

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