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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, 2 ft. 5 ins.; height from thetrack to the top of the floor, 3 ft. t>Ya ms-! height from thetrack to the top of the platform, 2 ft. 6^ ins.; height from thetrack to the top of the step tread, 17L+ bis.; size of the sidesills, 4 ins. x 7^4 nis- > sze °f tne end sills, 534 bis. x 6J4, ins.;sill plates, ^ in. x 15 ins.; thickness of the corner posts, 3^ins.; of the side posts, 2^4 ins. BUS BAR INSULATOR A new bus-bar inManufacturing Com;herewith. It is one ulator made by the Locke Insulatorany. of Victor, N. Y., is illustratedof those useful things that when an engineer wants he wants \ -ery badly, and often lias to spenc 1 1 1 EZZIZ * j CROSS SEATING IN TRAIL CAR FOR THE WASHINGTON. of passengers carried on this line is composed of sightseers,who, having visited the capital, wish to see the historic townssuch as Arlington, Mt. Vernon, etc., which line the routeof the Washington, Alexander & Mt. Vernon Railway. Thecars will be operated in trains and the ends of the vestibules
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ANDARD TRAIL CAR FOR THE WASHINGTON,VERNON RAILWAY are therefore left open to form the passageway between cars;a chain blocks the entrance when necessary. The steam-coach style of roof is adopted, and the interiorsare richly appointed with comfortable high-back seats up-holstered in leather of a shade to harmonize with the ma-hogany stained woodwork. The aisle is laid with linoleum;the ceilings are of sheet metal painted and decorated in anappropriate manner. There are thirteen transverse seats on BUS-BAR INSULATOR a good deal of time and money in getting up something ofhis own for the purpose. It will be noted that the insulatoris mounted on the pin at the bottom andon top of the insulator is a cast-iron cap.Above this is a wrought-iron strip securedby a pivot at its center to the cast-iron cap.That turns freely on the pivot, so that ifthe bus-bar is not wide enough to fill upthe entire space between the threadedposts at the end of the strip, the wholestrip can be turned so that the

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