Identifier: streetrailwayjo141898newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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FIG. 3.—CLOSED CAR—BOSTON
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FIG. 5.—CLOSED CAR—BOSTON closed car in operation on the lines of the Commonwealth AvenueStreet Railway Company. This car is mounted on a Duponttruck, and was built by Jackson & Sharp Company. Fig. 4 showsa nine-bench open car built for the Boston Elevated Railway bythe Laconia Car Company. Fig. 6 also shows a nine-benchopen car in use on the Boston Elevated Railway. This car isthe type of which the J. G. Brill Company has recently furnishedseventy-five to the Boston Elevated Railway. Fig. 5 shows a re-cent type of closed car built by Laconia Car Company for the Bos-ton Elevated Railway. In addition to the above there are a number of cars in opera-tion in Boston which will be of interest to delegates. The JohnStephenson Company, of New York, has built a large number of 25-ft. box cars, which are standard on the Boston Elevated. J.M. Jones Sons, of West Troy, N. Y., built the long open car 1 inoperation on the lines of the Commonwealth Avenue Street Rail-way. ♦♦♦ Well-Kno

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