Identifier: streetrailwayjo301907newy (find matches)
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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e consists offour needle beams between the bolsters extending from sidesill to side sill and shorter beams between the center sillsfor the trap doors. Each bolster is formed of special are of pressed steel, the side posts of rolled tees and the topplates of steel angles. There are twelve wrought iron car-lines. The vestibule framing and platform bearers are ofsteel throughout. The outside panels, which are 3/16-in.cold rolled steel, are riveted horizontally under the belt railand vertically at each post to permit the removal of singledamaged panels. All except the bottom line of rivets arecovered with a steel molding to give tlie car the same ap-pearance as the ordinary type. The roof consists of ton-gued and grooved white wood, painted with thick whitelead and covered with No. 8 cotton duck, which is giventhree coats of white lead. The car doors are made of oak. Those in the front areof the single half-glass sliding type. The front vestibule STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. LVol. XXX. No. 14.
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October 5, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. door opens inwardly. T£0,Mf The rear platform en-trance door also opens inwardly, but the exit door is of the sliding type. All doors are glazed with J^-in. plate glass. The steps are covered with Mason safety treads and pro-vided with a back riser of malleable iron to close the step opening and thus prevent acci-dents to passengers by their feet slipping through. There are thirteen square windows on each side with the up-per part stationary and the lower dropping into pockets below the belt rail, as shown in the cross section. Pan- tasote spring roller curtains are used. Storm sash and guards are applied to each window. There are three ventilators at the front end and three at the back end on both sides of the car hinged at the ends and made to open outward by cranks and handles in-side the cars. The re-maining six on each side of the car are hinged. The top of the floor in the car is covered with the )i-in. inter-locking blue and whiterubbe

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