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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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st Orange, N. J. Duringthese runs the car has shown a perform-ance on level track at 24 m.p.h. of 600watts per car mile. The car body is 40 ft. 6 in. in lengthand has a width of 8 ft. 2 in. It is dividedinto three compartments; a baggage com-partment which is 8 ft. in length withseats for four people, a smoking compart-ment with longitudinal seats for twelvepassengers, and a main passenger compart-ment with ten stationary seats. Nineof these seat two passengers each andone seats four passengers. This longer seat and one ofthe shorter seats are near the entrance. The other eightseats are arranged back to back as cross seats. The car is are protected from the heels of the passengers by perfo-rated sheet-steel risers. Every effort has been made to keep the weight ofthecar to a minimum, and the designers have succeeded in-ob-taining a weight of the complete car, including the battery,of 18,000 lb., and without the battery of 14,000 lb. The floor frame of the car is entirely of steel. Each
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