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Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (find matches)
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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x 5 ins., running full length of end sills, andcontinuing along side sills and intermediate sills about 12 ins. The headlining is of three-ply wood,all painted on the back with mineralpaint. In the passenger part the head-lining is painted a light green with golddecorations; the headlining in the bag-gage room is painted a cream color withdark red decorations, and the woodworkis of ash, natural finish. The interiorfinish is of cherry, rubbed to a dull finish,and the trimmings are of extra heavybronze. The cars are painted a dark redwith gold lettering, and they presentaltogether a handsome, attractive ap-pearance. The Kuhlman Company is also building trail cars for this company. STANDARD CARS FOR YERKES UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS In the Street Railway Journal of May 9, 1903, a descrip-tion was given on page 699 of the cars to be used on the YerkesLondon Underground Railways. The accompanying engraving,which arrived too late for use in that issue, shows the interior BAGGAGE AND PASSENGER CAR
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lhe accompanying cut shows the body of a baggage and pas-senger car combined, which was built for the Jackson & BattleCreek Traction Company, by the G. C. Kuhlman Car Com-pany. The car body is 40 ft. long and 50 ft. over the buffers.The bottom framing consists of 4%-in. x 73/-in. yellow pinesills, faced with continuous 7-in. x ^-in. steel plates. The endsills are of white oak, 554 ins. x 7^ ins. In addition to thisthere are two intermediate sills of 5-in. I-beams filled with INTERIOR OF CAR, LONDON UNDERGROUND of one of these cars. This view is particularly interestingowing to the novel seating arrangements and the use of anentrance door on each side. There are four cross-seats on eachside of the car, and longitudinal seats from the cross-seats tothe end doors. There is also a short longitudinal seat on eachside from the side door to the transverse seat. The rattan seats,which were supplied by G. D. Peters & Company, of London,are of the Hale & Kilburn pattern.

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