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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
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useto allow the application of suitable seats. The principal dimensions are as follows: length over all,45 ft. 6 in.; length over the end sheathing, 44 ft. 8 in.;length of the motormans cab, 3 ft.; center to center of \ \ Brooklyn Center-Entrance Car—Framing as Received at the Thirty-ninth Street Shops of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company in the seating near the cabs and center doors, in ventilation,etc. The following paragraphs and the accompanying illus-trations present full particulars of the new cars. GENERAL DIMENSIONS AND FRAMING This type may be described as a double-end, straight-sided body with low-step passenger entrance and two exits bolsters, 24 ft. 8 in.; width over the side sheathing, 8 ft.3 3/16 in.; width over the belt rail, 8 ft. 5^4 in.; width overthe drip rail, 8 ft. 5 in., and height from the bottom of thesill to the top of the trolley board, 10 ft. 2j4 in. The car-body framing is of pressed steel, both weldedand riveted. As received from The J. G. Brill Company
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Brooklyn Center-Entrance Car—Side and End View of Car as Completed at the Thirty-ninth Street Shops of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company located at the center of the car and arranged for collectionof fare as the passenger enters. The car floor at this pointis 14 in. above the rails at the threshold with 2 in. of rampto the center. Inside the car, from the center platformsub-floor or well is a 10-in. riser to the center aisle on eachside, this aisle having a ramp of 6 in. in 8 ft. 6 in. to thebolsters, from which points the floor is level. The sash is for equipment at the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Companysshops, the framing illustrated in the accompanying half-tone weighed 8562 lb. This framing was designed witha factor of safety of five. Each side of the car forms agirder consisting of the side plates, belt rail, letterboardand side posts, all of which are riveted to each other, tothe side sills and to the carlines. At the center of the car April 19, 1913.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL th

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