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Identifier: streetrailwayjo261905newy (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.
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ompany. This new rolling stock isto be of the same type as the Main Street cars formerly de-signed and built at the companys Cold Springs shops. Thecars will have 6-ft. platforms and seat forty-four people. Eachwill be equipped with Brill No. 27 trucks and four motors. T. W. Wilson, general manager of the company, states thatwith this order for new cars the company has decided to changethe color scheme of all the cars on the Buffalo division. Thepresent standard color is a dark wine, somewhat similar to aPennsylvania red, but hereafter all cars will be painted anolive green, with small yellow stripes for the decorative ef-fects. It has been found that the wine color does not wearsatisfactorily and requires almost constant varnishing in orderto hold its finish. The olive green has been selected as standardafter considerable experimenting and correspondence withother roads throughout the country, the results of the inquiriesseeming to indicate that of all the colors for car painting the
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ONE OF THE NEW PITTSBURG CARS BEFORE BEING MOUNTED ON ITS TRUCKS The side sills are made of yellow pine, 5 ins. x 8 ins., re-inforced with a steel angle, 4 ins. x 6 ins., the entire length fromthe end sill to the end sills. The center sills are of yellow pine, greens stand in highest favor among electric railway managerson account of the wearing qualities and the capacity for retain-ing- the finish with a reasonable amount of varnishing. December 9, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1029 NEW CONTROLLER SYSTEM A new system of car control, by which the main controlleris carried under the car and its movements are directed by amaster controller on either platform or from the platform ofthe front car of a train, has recently been invented by CharlesA. Mudge, of New York. The general wiring diagram of thesystem is shown in Fig. 1, in which CB is the master controller,which is developed in the usual way, at the upper right-handcorner of the diagram. MC is the main controller, which isrevolved

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