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Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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CONTROLLER WITH CASE OFF with polished Kauri pine panels, the seats being upholstered inepingle; nearly all the seating in these cars was supplied byHale & Kilburn, for whom G. D. Peters & Company are Britishagents. The floor is covered with a crimson velvet carpet overkork. The third-class motor cars are finished in polished wains-cot oak, all seats being covered with light rattan caneworkto match. Side lights and general fittings are similar to those
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HORIZONTAL CROSS SECTION OF CONTROLLER in the first-class cars. In the center of the motor roof is anoak rail, with leather hand straps for the use of passengerswhen the train starts at a station. At the driving end a bag-gage compartment is arranged for light luggage. Oak shutterson either side which roll down in blind fashion, and close oropen the whole length of the compartment, have been arrangedwith the object of facilitating the work of the guard. Theunder frames throughout are of steel, the sides and centre sillsbeing of channel section, each sill being trussed with rods pass- ing over the bolsters to the steel-plate headstocks. The bolstersare of steel channel, riveted to the underside of the sills andsupported by straps. Central buffing and drawbars are arrangedat each end of the trailer cars, and the trailing end of the motorcars, the couplers being fitted with side guide springs to damposcillation and lateral motion when passing over crossingsand round curves. At the motor

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