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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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n metal panelsat llu seal (in.-. This greatly increases the strengthand stiffness of the post ami the durability of the From the arrangement of the trolley hoardit 1, seen that the cars run in one direction only,with the open section ahead. This leaves the platform in the rear fret instruction. As the practice is to haul trailers an opening is left in thedasher, s,, as to permit passage from car to car.The practice of running small trains on street- hasbeen discouraged in many cities in the Atlantic-tans on the ground that it is un afi (hen an however, many when the public would he greatly accommodated by suchtrains. The safety is a thing which depends Upor proper mtnent, rather than the number of cars which run together in a train. The platform at the end of the closed body can he dropped and inthis way the step may be brought within easy reach of the ground.For safety and to make stops as short as possible this is an im-portant matter. It is also a question whether two steps are not
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PIG. (.—COMBINATION e AR-WORCESTKK ,v SI MIKUAN STREET RY. safer, better for the passenger and quicker for loading and unloading than a single step iS or 10 in, above the head of the rail. Mi, Denver Tramway Co, has some combination cars in opera-tion which are especially interesting to railway men. They arc M w jo. iooj-I STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 271 novel in both construction and design, (hese combination cars areshown in Figures ~ to 13. They are made up of a closed bodytrailer car and an open grip car joined so as to form a single carTTie Mill in 11 of the old cable cars was a commendable piece of lied together at the ends by both end and cross sills, (hej havebolsters over the trucks and are fastened by wood cross ties. Atthe comers they are stiffened by angle plates. The I beams havewooden fillers on the outside so as to give them a smooth surface.

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