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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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bed in recent num-bers of the Street Railway Journal that itis not necessary to enlarge upon it. The company has constructed and equippedits lines after the latest methods, and in choos-ing its car adopted this type of semi-con-vertible as being best adapted to the require-ments of thoroughly modern high-speed ser-vice. For the same reasons the Brill No. 27-E-i^ trucks were selected, which are capable enjoyable, and only regrettedthat lack of time preventeda more thorough investiga-tion of the works of theWestinghouse interests. Agroup of the delegates asthey appeared in the worksof the Westinghouse Com-pany is shown in connectionwith this item, Mr. Mc-Cleary appearing as thecentral figure in a sittingposture. The interline tickets adopt-ed by the Ohio InterurbanRailway Association havebeen placed in use by prac-tically every road identified with the association, and a numberof roads in Indiana have agreed to accept these tickets whenthey are issued by Ohio electric railway companies.
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AN EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE FIRST CAR IN ILLINOIS OPERATED BY THE SINGLE-PHASESYSTEM, SHOWING ALSO THE MOUNTING OF THE TROLLEY BASE ON INSULATORS of the highest speeds, and may be run around curves of shortradii in very fast time because of the cushioned side swing.The trucks have solid forged side frames and are well adapted 334 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 7. to service under a heavy passenger car of this type. The car is divided into two compartments, one the regularpassenger compartment and the other for smokers. The semi-convertible window system allows the windows to be held atany desired height or raised entirely into the roof pockets.The interior finish is cherry, with green ceilings decorated ingold. Transverse seats upholstered in green leather and withreversible high backs are used in the regular compartment,while longitudinal seats are in the smoking compartment. Re-movable storm sashes are included in the equipment. Amongthe furnishings are Brownell accelerator door

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