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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rs, the lower portionsof which show in the interior view. Each berth is 6 ft. 9 in.long and 2 ft. 6 in. wide and provided with a front board to pre-vent accidents when turning sharp curves or on rough track.I?ox spring mattresses with hair top are provided for both berths.Bedding is stored in one of the upright cupboards and the other is a locker for the use ol the crew. A stepladdtr for the berthsserves as a motormans stool and this with a desk for Mr. Farmersuse completes the cabin furnishings. On the platform, just outside the door, is a crane of 8 ft. work-ing radius and 2 tons capacity, which is used for handling heavy ^ ^T^L 1 m ■ f 1 IS ^^^B^ 1 K. J^ iVi- fe 1 ? INTERIOR CI CAR, supplies, armatures, motors, etc., which it may be necessary toload and unload. Below the crane is a hand winch used in draw-ing wheels or trucks up on to the car. Just in front of the winchin the engraving will be noted three trucks which are used forarmatures; in bad weather these arc rolled inside.
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SPKCIAI, tAH lOK MBCUANICAI, DEIARTMKNT, DRTKOIT UNITKO KV. 856 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XI, No. ii. The platform floor has strap iron inlaid flush with the floor withgrooves cut alongside so as to form two tracks onto which mountedcar -wheels or in emergency a whole truck can be rolled. The carcarries jacks, frogs, bull rope, etc., so that it can be of assistancein case of derailment or other accident to regular cars. On the front is an electric arc headlight. The ordinary head-lights are carried on each end of the car roof (these are for cityservice, the arc being used on the interurban lines) ; under the

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