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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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re con- cerned, to the stokers. Wc believe that what tears boilers topieces more than any other cause is opening the door with a hotfire and allowing a cold bla«l to strike the sheet. With a stokeryou keep a regular lemperalurc. When we cooled those lioilersdown we would simply let the fire go out and keep everythingclosed from Saturday night to Monday morning; ami firing up wcwould take, if possible, 24 luiurs 10 bring the boiler up to pressure. Semi.Convertible Cars for Washington. Semi-couvcrtible cars of the types illustrated built by the J. G.Rrill Co. have recently been placed on the lines of the Grays Har-bor KIcctric Co., Aberdeen, Wash. The company operates betweenthe two towns of Aberdeen and I loquiam, which are located onGrays Harbor in the central western part of Washington. Thelirill scmi-convcrtible type of car is largely used under conditionssimilar to those of this road and has always given the highest■•atisfaction. The windows may be held at any height or raised
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COMBINATION B.\GGA(;E ANIl I-ASSENGER CAR. entirely into the roof pockets. The combination passenger andbaggage car illustrated is 38 ft. 7 in. over the end panels and ismounted on the Brill Ko. 27-E-2 high-speed trucks. The baggagecompartment is 10 ft. 9 in long. The partition dividing the com-partments has a single sliding door and on cither side of the bag-gage compartment there is a 4-ft sliding door next to the partition.Transverse spring cane seats 37 in. long, with longitudinal cornerseats occupying the space- of two windows, are in the passengercompartment and slat seats arranged to fold when not in use are inthe baggage compartment. The aisle is 24 m. wide. The type ofpassenger and smoking car is 34 ft. 4 in. over the end panels and ismounted on the Brill No. 27-G trucks for fast and heavy city andsuburban service, having ss-h. p. motors. The smoking compart-ment is II ft. 10 in. long. .\ partition with single sliding doors sepa- ^m r m L -!— -X—1 ■ 1- II Hi^ rP ^ff pH^

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