Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (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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at both ends, lever brakes this uniformity of color affecting a considerable saving in lliocost of painting. The car is heated by the New Columbiaself-feeding car stove, made by the McGuire .ManufacturingCompany. Both the cars are mounted on wooden trucks, designed by C.E. Moore, master mechanic. These trucks have been tested bytwo years of service and have proved very satisfactory in easylidiug qualities, low cost of construction and maintenance. In the illustration a Providence fender, made by the Consoli-dated Car Fender Company, of Providence, is shown on themotor car. The cradle of the fender is hinged on trunnions atthe front of the platform so that it can lie turned up againstthe dash or let down at any desired angle, this being regulatedby a steel bar projecting under the platform and held by atrigger which, when the motorman presses it with his foot, letsthe cradle drop to the track. The cradle is made up of curvedsteel bands, held together at the bottom by a rod which is en-
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NEW CHICAGO CITY TE.\1N. applied and mounted on a new truck. This is the smoking car,and its chief peculiarity is that it has no steps, ingress andegress being through an opening in the rear vestibule to thetrailer. If short hauls were the rule this arrangement wouldbe inconvenient, but during the rush hours in the morning thepassengers ride several miles from the residence districts andleave the cars only at a few crossings in the business center-,in the evening it is the reverse. By this arrangement one con-ductor can have charge of both cars. In the monitor the ventilators have been arranged as on the elevated cars. Each littlewindow is hung on a pivot and all along one side are controlledby a sliding rod. In this way the smoke in the upper part ofthe car can be drawn out without causing a draught in the caritself. Electric heaters are placed under the seats. The trail car, which has been recently constructed, is nowthe standard for the new cars of the company and the proto-type fo

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