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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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he roof. The cars are heated by Gold cylindrical heaters, one beingunder each seat and a total of twenty-eight heaters per car.There are two coils in each heater, thus providing three de-grees of heat. In the vestibule, at the saloon end of the car, on the mo-tormans side, there is a switchboard on which are mountedthe headlight and air compressor switches and fuses, theswitch for cutting out the contact shoes when operating ontrolley, the trolley cut-out switch and current limit relay.This switchboard is provided with double steel doors linedwith asbestos, and is accessible from the vestibule. Thisswitchboard, as well as all conduit wiring and fixtures for November 10, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 941 heating and lighting, was installed by the General Electric the cars of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and theCompany. Long Island Railroad, but with greater wheel base. The The American Car & Foundry Company, of Wilmington, general dimensions of the trucks are as follows:
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Del., built twenty-two of the passenger cars, and the J. G.Brill Company, of Philadelphia., Pa., built eighteen and the

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