Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (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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ody is carried rather lower than usual, so that onlytwo risers are necessary to reach the platform from theground. Two trolley poles are used. The shape of thevestibules is novel, and is intended to reduce the air re-sistance. These cars weigh light, including motors and allequipments, 73,000 lbs. Fig. 31 illustrates a very handsome coach recently corn- satisfaction on the Northern Texas Traction Company ispresented herewith. This car was also built by the Kuhl-man Company. On high-speed roads the ordinary type ofcar with running-boards has certain objections, and thiscar, as will be seen, has a center aisle with end entrances.It is designed for use as a trail car only, and is hauled byeither an interurban coach or a baggage car. It is 50 ft.over all, with seating capacity for fifty-five persons. Theinterior finish is cherry with birds-eye maple ceiling andbronze trimmings. An attempt has not been made in this article to coverall of the types of interurban cars which are being used in
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FIG. 32—OPEN CAR FOR NORTHERN TEXAS TRACTION COMPANY pleted by the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company for the Colum-bus, Delaware & Marion Railway. It is 50 ft. over all, andis divided into two compartments, a regular passenger com-partment and a smoking compartment. The former isfitted with high, corrugated back, plush seats with grab-handles, while the seats in the smoking compartment are ofcane. The car is finished in solid mahogany with extra-heavv bronze trimmings and elaborate electroliers, and costcomplete nearly $12,000. The seating capacity of the caris fifty-two passengers. The car is mounted on Peckham interurban work, or even to describe the products of all theprominent car-building companies in the country. Someof these builders are represented in the article on the rollingstock in Detroit, published elsewhere, and there a number inthe East, like the Laconia Car Company, Jones and others,whose work is familiar to our readers through publishedarticles in these pages. It might

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