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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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y removed. Theend sill or bumper is a pressed-steel channel, curved to shape.The floor, both of the car body and of the platform, is l/?,-m.steel plate, riveted to all the members of both the body framingand platform. Over the steel floor in the aisle are laid maplestrip mats, treated, as previously explained, so as to be non-combustible. The side posts of the car are of channel section and run from tinuous pressed-steel member, which also forms a water shedover the windows. The upper and lower roofs are made ofcomposite board covered with canvas. At the lower eaves a copper flashing is brazed to a brass eaverunning the length of the car. On the upper roof this copperflash is attached directly to the upper eave. The hoods over platforms are made of steel plates, bent toshape, each hood being in three sections, riveted at the joints. The windows are arranged to drop into the lower part of thecar, as in the ordinary New York City standard car. The July 29, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.
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STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVI. No. 5. upper and lower members of the window sash are fireproofedash. The side members of the window sash are brass channelswhich slide in pressed-steel grooves. The seats and backs are formed of thin sheet steel pressedto shape and stiffened with angles, the outside covering beingcarpet. Both seats and backs are removable and are held inposition by overlapping cleats without the use of bolts. As to the wiring, the motor cables are carried in split-ironpipes under the seats, and the branch-off wires to motors andcontrollers are run in iron-pipe conduits. This is the samepractice as followed on the standard New York City woodencars, except that on the latter the main cables are carried intransite moldings. In the case of the steel car, the iron pipesare attached directly to the sheet metal of the car by straphangers. The motor cables are the same as adopted by theNew York City Railway Company as standard for all cars.The specifications for wiring req

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