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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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ts in the October 13, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 567 open-car sections, and longitudinal rattan seats and backs inthe closed compartment. The next steel cars built in the new passenger car plantof the Pressed Steel Car Company consisted of three steamrailway passenger coaches for the Southern Railway, all ofwhich have been delivered, and forty all steel passenger carbodies for the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, thegreater part of which have now been completed and delivered.The trucks for the latter were built by the Tate Manufactur-ing Company and applied by the railroad company. One of the Southern Railway coaches was exhibited at theconvention of railway mechanical officials at Atlantic City inJune, and was illustrated and described in that connection inthe Street Railway Journal for June 23. End and in- for the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and shown inFigs. 6, 7 and 8. These forty cars are for service on theMarket street elevated and subway line, and the reproduction
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FIG. 4.-END VIEW OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY CAR FIG. 6.—INTERIOR OF 1TI I LAPELlHI A SUBWAY CAR FIG. 8.—STEEL CAR FOR ELEVATEP ANP SUBWAY SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA terior views are presented in Figs. 4 and 5. In this case thepurchaser desired wooden finish above the window rail, butthe framing of the car throughout is of steel, the vestibulesall steel and outside sheathing to window rail of steel plate.Of particular interest here, however, is the type of car built in Fig. 8 gives an idea of the pleasing external appearance ofthe car. The design is of steel throughout with non-com-bustible flooring composition, and it is to all intents shock andfire proof. The outside sheathing is of cold rolled steel andthe underframe consists of deep fishbelly side sills, with cross- 568 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVIII. No. 15. bearers and connections in girder form,sions are as detailed below: Length over platform (over all), 49 ft. 7K ins-Length over door posts, 40 ft. 6J4 ins. The general dimen- K

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