Identifier:streetrailwayj281906newy (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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of the cars is usually from 40 ins. to 43ins. above the rail. With a drop platform thisnecessitates two steps of from 1 1 ins. to I 3 ins.,the lower step being about 1 7 ins. above the rail.When the platform is not dropped, three steps areoften used. The rear platforms of the interurban cars ofthe Detroit United Railways are open. Theyare constructed similar to open platforms of citycars and are provided with a safety gate on oneside. The older cars of the Detroit, Ypsilanti, AnnArbor & Jackson Railway also have open rearplatforms. On this system, however, closed vesti-bules are preferred, and all new cars are being pur-chased with closed vestibules, and the platforms onthe older cars are being enclosed. The height over all of cars in these States isusually about 1 3 ft. The Detroit, Ypsilanti, AnnArbor & Jackson cars measure 12 ft. 1 1 Y% ins.to the top of the trolley plank; the new cars of theFort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Com- 3 III 9 9 9 9 9o 5 555 99999995555555
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October 13, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 627 ill-gig s.sg.ssgga 2 OOiflOOUinO O ■8 1111 ! mi! I : ni(>>ij! B 0 0 : : :oo 33 ;l ;; pi 1 I.glll g.cl ;;;;; I <a 2 M-§-a-a-ia5« »l ijl;pl4;; J.1JJgj pany, 13 ft. 1 in.; those of the Terre HauteTraction & Light Company, 12 ft.; and thoseof the Indiana Union Traction Company, 1 3 ft.6 ins. to the top of the roof. There is very little relation between the totalweights of the cars as given and the seating ca-pacity. This is partly accounted for by the factthat the baggage compartment in some of the carsreduces the number of seats. The heaviest carsfound, which were those of the Indianapolis &Northwestern Traction system, weigh 82,000 lbs.The weight of the new cars of the Fort Wayne& Wabash Valley Traction Company is estimatedat 80,000 lbs. It is interesting to note that the weight of inter-urban cars, as usually constructed, is about equallydivided between the body and the trucks and mo-tors. Of the total weight of 7

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