Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ELEVATION OF STANDARD CLOSED CAR. form header, 34 ft.; length over hunters, 35 ft.; length over bon-nets, 34 ft. 4% in.; width of bottom over panels, 6 ft. 8 in.; widthover posts, 7 ft. 6 in.; width over drip rails, 7 ft. 10V2 in.; heightfrom floor to ceiling, 8 ft. 1% in.; height of doorway, 6 ft. 4% in.;height from bottom of sill to top of trolley board, 8 ft. 9% in. of rough stuff; scoured to a surface; one coat of ground color;two coats of color; two coats of wearing body varnish. The standard open car have 12 benches with enclosed ends. Thegeneral dimensions are: Length over bunter sills, 33 ft. 7 in.;length over bonnets, 33 ft. 10 in.; width of bottom over sills, 6 ft.
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FLOOR FRAMING OF CLOSED CAR. Main Features: Car to be vestibuled: to have 9 windows oneach side, i door and 2 windows at each end, 3 windows and 2double doors in vestibule; 9 windows on each side to be cur-tained; doors and windows on each end to be curtained inside thevestibule. Also revolving signs, ratchet brake handles and chains,buffers, spring boxes, drawbars, cages, foot gongs, signal bells,grab handles, window guards, hand pole brackets, and all attach-ments usually found on electric cars, which are more fully de-scribed in the specifications. The side sills are of best hard pine, and the end sills, bolsters,cross timbers and braces of best white or yellow bark oak; tenonsare coated with white lead, and the framing is painted before thefloor is laid. Door and side posts, and body and roof framing areof white ash. Panels are of soft whitewood. Carline are of softsteel. The inside finish is cherry, the headlinings and card racks 10 in.; width over posts, 7 ft. i in.; width over

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