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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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igh speed, while also suitablefor the grooved rails in cities. The summer cars each have fourG. E. 57 motors, 50 h. p. each, and K-14 controllers; the wintercars have four G. E. 51 motors, 75 h. p. each, and L-4 controllers..•\11 cars have Christensen air brakes, with motor compressors, thecompressors being housed in under the floor near the middle of the total, 57.728 lb. This is heavier than the standard passengercoach of the Boston & Albany R. R., which weighs 52,000 lb. Thewindow sashes are in two parts, and drop into the walls of thecar flush with the coping. The vestibules have low side doorsand curtains; the windows are shaded with ordinary duck curtains,which roll up. The interior finish is in white ash, white grained,while the ceilings are of light colored birds eye maple simplydecorated. Double sliding doors are provided at each end, givinga clear opening of 36 in. The cross seats are of the Wheeler patenttype, made by the Haywood Brothers & Wakefield Co., of Wake-
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FIG. 2-WIXTER CAR FOR ALHANY & HUDSON-WASON MANIIFACTURINC. CO. car; also, ordinary ratchet hand brakes. They also have Providencefenders, and track sanding devices made by the American Loco-motive Sanding Co., of Philadelphia, using compressed air. Forlights there are 15 single keyless electric lamps on each side alongthe ventilator stringers, and two candle lamps at each end foruse in case of failure of the lighting current. The registers arethe Meaker duplex type; the two register cords and the bell cord arecarried above the center of the aisle, being strung through ringsat the lower ends of thin flat bronze strips, which depend from field, Mass. The seats and backs of the summer cars are of woodenslats, and have corner grab handles. The winter cars are divided by glass partitions into two com-partments, one for smokers, and are to be run one way all thetime, smoker end forward. They have 15 windows on each side,and the lower sash is designed to drop into the wall of the car.Th

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