Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (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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Minn.; Baltimore, Md.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Denver, Col.; SaltLake City; Louisville, Ky.; Racine, Wis.; Duluth, Minn.; Shreve-port. La.; Peoria, 111.; Fall River, Mass.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Cin-cinnati, Ohio; Omaha, Neb.; Nashville, Tenn.; Dallas, Texas;Pittsburgh, Pa.; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, Cal.; Hot for Buenos-Aires, Argentine Republic; 50 cars for Germany; 12cars for Holland; 14 cars for Russia; 75 for Lisbon, Portugal; 45for Mexico. Some recent cars built by the company are 5hownherewith. The first view shows a double truck first-class passenger car.adopted by Compania de Ferrocarriles del Distrito Federal deMexico. The body is 25 ft. 4 ins. over corner posts, 34 ft. 4 ins.over all, and 8 ft. 2 ins. wide. It has a vestibule on one end, oneentrance at the front end, and double entrance on rear end. The 46 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. i. rear platform of the dash is cut for access to the trail, or second-class car. The car is straight sided, sheeted up with tongued and
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CAR FOR SAN JUAN, AMERICAN CAR CO. grooved material, and covered with sheet steel, as this is foimd tobe the most satisfactory panel in southern climates. There arenine sash on each side. The bottom sash is ar-ranged to drop. The interior finish of the carsi.s cherry, with birds-eye maple ceilings. The cars are equipped with the St. Louis CarCompanys walk-over seat, with new style han-dle, pantasote curtains, bronze trimmings, mir-rors, etc. St. Louis Car Companys ratchetbrake wheel is employed on the front platform.The cars are also equipped with Christensen airbrakes. The St. Louis Car Company is now building,in addition to twenty first-class cars, which havebeen sent to Mexico, ten first-class cars, tensecond-class cars and twenty i8-ft. box cars, sim-ilar to the first-class cars. The second engraving shows a single-truckconvertible car, recently adopted by BerlinerStrassenbahn Gesellschaft, of Berlin, Germany,as standard. Both sash drop flush with the armrail, after which the open

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