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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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city car inthe United States in the latitude of Chicago to be equipped withstorm sash for winter. Such storm sash have been used withgreat success in Minneapolis and St. Paul, where extreme coldweather makes the heating of cars difficult. These storm sash, September 16, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 403 together with an unusual number of electric hearers, renderpossibk the maintenance of a comfortable temperature in thecars, even during the coldest weather experienced in Chicago. HEATING On account of the great number of stops per mile in serviceand the opening of doors at both ends of the car, necessitated follows: First point, 7 amps.; second point, 12 amps; thirdpoint, 19 amps. It is a common mistake, in purchasing electric heater equip-ment for a car, to provide an insufficient number of heaters, thusgiving too small radiating surface. This makes it necessary towork the heaters at a high temperature, which is detrimentalto the life of the heater coils and does not produce as good
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FIG. 3.—EXTERIOR OF CAR AS ARRANGED FOR SUMMER SERVICE by the heavy traffic, the heating of Chicago cars requires morethan ordinary provisions and, in fact, is probably the mostdifficult heating proposition to be found in the United States.Electric heaters are located along the truss plank the entirelength of the car occupied by cross-seats, and panel heaters areplaced under the longitudinal seats at the ends of the car.There are twelve truss-plank heaters and eight panel heaters,

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