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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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fifteen dressing rooms to start with, thoughseveral others can be provided if required. The prosceniumwill be 34 ft. wide and about 26 ft. high. The frontage is to beelaborately painted, and faced with lights. The immense heightof the stage enclosure will give room for a great quantity ofscenery. A unique scheme is provided for getting into and outof the balcony or gallery. At the west side of the pavilion anentrance is made that will be on a level with the ground of thepark, a broad enclosed walk leading from the hill directly intothe gallery. This will do away with climbing of stairs to getinto the balcony. CARS FOR NEW ZEALAND In the issue for Sept. 6, 1902, of this paper, some details ofthe proposed equipment of the Dunedin (New Zealand) Tram-ways with electric power were published. The road is beinginstalled by Noyes Bros., of Sydney, N. S. W., and members ofthis firm were in this country last fall and again this springfor the purpose of ordering equipment for the Dunedin system.
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OPEN CAR FOR DUNEDIN added to the car by this improvement the platforms arebrought down as low as those of an ordinary closed car,the riser being but 12 ins. and the step to the rail headbut 13 ins. The body is 13 ft. 55/2 ins. over the end panels,and has longitudinal seats with room for eighteen pas-sengers. The interiors are finished in quartered oak, withceilings of the same material. The open portions are 7 ft.9)4 ins.from end panels over crown pieces,making a totallengthof car over crown pieces of 29 ft. There is seating on the plat-forms for twenty passengers, making a total seating for thecar of thirty-eight. The platforms are protected with curtains,which may be drawn to the floor, as the seat-end panels are ofthe round-corner style. The width of these cars over sills is6 ft. 2 ins., and over posts at belt, 7 ft. i in.; sweep of posts,5 ins.; thickness of corner posts of closed compartment, 3^ins., and of open, 3^ ins.; side posts of closed compartments,1% ins., and of open, 2

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