Identifier: streetrailwayjo311908newy (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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n leads to theIndiana Avenue interlocking and this is reduced to a i-in.main from there south to Forty-third Street. The pressuremaintained is 85 lb., and even during the busiest hoursthere is no appreciable drop in pressure at the terminalsdue to rapid consumption and flow of air. The signal system has been in operation for some timeand has given complete satisfaction. The trains maintainsafe intervals and run at maximum speed with practicallyno interruptions. The Retail Merchants Association, of Terre Haute, Ind.,has abolished the refund fare system to out-of-town trades-people which has been in operation for nearly two years.The merchants say the books were loaned and were thusunconsciously honored by the interurban companies whenthe agreement was that they should not be transferred. 422 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXL No. ii. IMPROVED STEEL CAR FOR THE NEW YORK SUBWAY The Interborough Rapid Transit Company, of New York,is now completing the equipment of 50 steel cars for opera-
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FIG. 1.—INTERIOR OF SUBWAY CAR, SHOWING SEATING ARRANGEMENT therefore a description of the later design should be ofspecial value as embodying the results of a three yearspractical study of novel equipment used under most diffi-cult operating conditions. Several of these cars havealready been put in service in NewYork. The general considerations whichguided the companys engineers in de-signing the car along the lines to bedescribed instead of following certainfeatures laid down in the originalsteel cars were four in number, as fol-lows : The widening of the vestibuleor platform doors; complete fireproof-ing; reduction in weight, and elimina-tion of the finish used to imitate theusual wooden car. PLATFORM POORS In order to reduce the time of sta-tion stops, it was thought desirableto increase the width of the platformdoors, the new dimension being 50 in.,as compared with 39 in. in the oldcars. Thus it has been made possiblefor two people, and even three, to en-ter the car abreast and

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