Identifier: streetrailwayjo301907newy (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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ws running through posts, withneat polished bronze cup washers on inside of post. Duringthe summer months these sash are removed and stored. The following are the general dimensions of the car:Length over corner posts, 28 ft.; length of platform, 4 ft.7 ins.; length over buffers, 38 ft. 3% ins.! length center tocenter of bolsters, 15 ft. 1^4 ins.; width over sill plates7 ft.; width over drip rails, 8 ft. y2 in.; height from bottomof sill to top of trolley board, 8 ft. 11^4 ins. The entire underframe is double mortised and tenonedjoints are secured by knee forgings and standard structuralsteel angles. A steel plate 8 ins. x in. is securely boltedto the side sills, extending the entire length of car body.The bolsters are of steel plates framed into underframe topplate 8 ins. x % in. and bottom 8 ins. x 1 in. The platform bearers extend from the-sub-end sill andside sills to buffer angle iron, hung by bolts -arid steel castingsto end sills; the outside bearers are inst--x 6 ins. x Yi in.
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Section G-D l< 70*-- CROSS-SECTION OF LATEST EROOKLYN SURFACE CAR Section A-B The underframe is of unusually strong and rigid con-struction. All timbers are of white oak, except the sidesills of yellow pine. The side and end sills are 4% ins. x7 ins.; the cross timbers are 3^4 ins. x 524 ins.; longi-tudinals, 3 ins. x 524 ins.! auxiliary end sills, 524 ins. x5^4 ins.; sub-end sills, 5^ ins. x 4J4 ins.; trap door tim-bers, 3% ins. x 4^4 ins. angles, reinforced at the bend by a 5 ins. x 3 ins. x )i in.angle, and the middle bearers are of 5 ins. x 3 ins. x ^ in.angles, reinforced by an angle of the same size at the bend. The flooring is of ij4-in. yellow pine, 3^-in. face tongueand groove run lengthwise and sunk flush with and rab-bitted into- side sills. Each board is secured to each floortimber with two 2j4-in. No. 14 screws, sunk y$ in. into November 2, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 919 boards and covered with putty. The floor space betweenis covered with beveled maple strips. The

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