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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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it. is possible to control the whole equip-ment of the train by means of two main cables. This methodwas described in detail on page 510 of the Street RailwayJournal for April 2, 1904. The metallic shield blow-out has also been applied to con-trollers for crane, stationary motors, etc. COMBINATION CARS FOR BUTTE, MONTANA The Butte Electric Railway Company, of Butte, Montana,has purchased from the American Car Company two inter-esting combination open and closed cars mounted on doubletrucks. Butte is known principally as a great mining center, althoughit is also the second city in the State in manufactures and isan important railway center. Its population is 30,500. It isthe commercial center of a large district, and the traffic sincethe comparatively recent installation of the railway lines hasrapidly increased, so the new cars are greatly needed. Theattractive park, Columbia Gardens, is reached by the lines ofthe company. Instead of the usual division of the compartments at the cen-
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COMBINATION OPEN AND CLOSED CAR OPERATED BY THEBUTTE ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY ter of the car, the larger portion is given to the closed com-partment, which has longitudinal seats. The seats in the opencompartment extend across the car—two have reversible backsand two are at either side of the bulkhead. The car seatsforty-four, besides affording large standing space. The sasheso. the closed compartment and the vestibules are arranged todrop into pockets. The curtains of the upper part may bedrawn to the floor, as the seat ends are of the Brill round-corner style. Guard rails, which slide behind grab-handles and are secured under the water boards by gravity catches, are pro-vided for the open compartment. Cars of this type have ac-quired much popularity, and are usually run through the en-tire year. The open compartment is used by smokers in win-ter, thereby meeting a demand which all managers of city sys-tems recognize. The use of the vestibule in addition to thebulkhead in the open

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