Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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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ONE OF FIFTY NEW TRAIL CARS FOR THE ELEVATED DIVISION CF THE INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY The baggage and express car, interior and exterior views ofwhich are shown, is 42 ft. over all and is without platforms.There are two doors on each side of the car, so that loadingand unloading is facilitated, and it is not necessary to keep apassage clear the whole length of the car. There is also amplewindow space, the windows being protected from the inside byiron guards. At each end of the car is a partition rail of iron
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AN INTERIOR ,IEW OF THE BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS CAR pipe to protect the motorman from the baggage. The equip-ment of this car as regards trucks, sand boxes and headlightsis the same as the interurban passenger car. At the height of the rush hour crush on the morning of Nov.29, traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge was tied up by an accident.The trouble occurred near the Brooklyn side, where a cabletrain broke down with a shattered axle. The stalled traincaused the trains behind to be stopped, and in a few momentsthe tie-up was general on the entire cable service. width over all, 8 ft. 9^ ins.; height from under side of sill totop of roof, 9 ft. 6 ins.; and seating capacity, forty-eight pas-sengers. There are four cross seats on each side of the aislein the center of the car, with longitudinal seats at both endsof the car. Cars are of the double-side construction, withsteel anti-telescoping device. Single sliding doors have beenadopted. The lower window sash raises as in an ordinarysteam coach, a

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