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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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ni- The St. Louis Car Company, St. Louis, Mo., delivered recentlyto the Oneonta, Cooperstown & Richfield Springs Railway Com-pany, Oneonta, New York, several interurban cars, somewhatdifferent from those ordinarily used. By referring to the accom-panying engraving it will be noticed that entrance for passengers isat the center of the car, on one side of which is the ladies com-partment, on the other is the smoking compartment, and also acompartment for baggage. The extreme length of car is 56 ft., thewidth 9 ft. The ladies compartment is 20 ft. long, with the motor-mans cab, 3 feet long, partitioned off. There are twelve seatsin this compartment made by the St. Louis Car Company of Walk-Over pattern, covered with plush. It is also provided with water-cooler, toilet room and hot water heater. The smoking compartment is 13 ft. in length and furnished withten Walk-Over seats. The baggage compartment is separated fromthat of the smokers; it is 10 ft. in length and has sliding doors on
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LONG COMBINATION CAR FOR INTERURBAN SERVICE ties for great wastefulness of lubricating oils. The device here-with illustrated in two different forms for economically applying oil to working parts is re-puted to have had its originin an operating departmentof pronounced wasteful-ness, that of mine carwheels, but its advantagesadapt it to all cases wherelubricants are required.The oiler, which is the im-proved Tormay oiler, madeby the Ironsides Company,of Columbus, consists of acentral working barrel, con-taining a plunger and sur-rounded by an oil reservoir.Openings in the workingbarrel, sealed or unsealed,according to the positionof plunger, communicatewith ahe oil reservoir.The stroke of the plungeris adjustable, to govern thequantity of oil forced dur-ing each operation. When not in use its contents are not onlypreserved from leakage, but also protected from dust and other im-purities.

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