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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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th trapdoors closing the step openings and end doors. Themotormans cab is formed in the leftside of the vestibule by swinging open adoor which is hinged to one of the frontvestibule posts. When this door is swungopen it extends across to the door post ofthe car body and separates the motor-mans cab from the remainder of theplatform. When closed this door foldsback over the control apparatus. Immedi-ately behind the motorman is a switchcabinet lined with transite and providedwith an iron door, which contains thepump, light and control fuses. The interior of the car is finished inmahogany. The ceiling is of the semi-empire type and the deck sash areglazed with leaded art glass. The rattan seats of the smok-ing compartment, and plush ones in the passenger compart-ment are of the St. Louis Companys reversible type withpedestal bases and automatic foot rests. The heater wires as formerly, namely, the No. 27-G with a wheel base of 4 ft.6 ins. The weight of the car and the trucks without the
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APPEARANCE FROM STREET OF THE MOBILE CAR motors is 28,000 lbs. The interiors are finished in cherry;the seats are of Brill make and of the slat type. It will benoticed that the lights are strung singly down the center of the car, and not in clusters, as is ordinarily done in carare in pipe conduits, and the light wires in asbestos molding. lighting. 38 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIX. No. i. LEGAL DEPARTMENT* OBLIGATION TO REPAVE In the Legal Department of this journal for Sept. 26,1903, treating of Police Power and Roadbeds, a test wassuggested for the validity of ordinances imposing obliga-tions upon street railway companies. If the company bemerely required to perform acts in and about its tracks androadbed which are rendered necessary by the existence ofthe track, the burden so imposed is legitimate. If, how-ever, it be attempted to shift upon a street railway com-pany a duty of paving or cleaning, which has no essentialrelation to the roadbed, and which would exist if therewer

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