Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy (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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IN THE MACHIS HEATED INE SHOP AND OVERHAULING SECTION. THE STRUCILREFROM THE DUCT SUSPENDED FROM THE ROOF BEAMS Railroad. Each vestibule contains one 192 M. S. heater con-trolled by a quick-break knife switch. These cab heatersare furnished with locks and the motormen keep the keys.This heater is very compact, as appears from the follow-ing dimensions: Length, 16% ins.; width, 7 ins., and thick-ness, 5^ in.
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A TRAIN OF CARS IN SERVICE ON THE PHILADELPHIA & WESTERN RAILROAD. THE SLIDING BOWS ARE USED ONLY FOR CAR MOVEMENT IN THE CAR HOUSE ing compartments is of the reversible type with high backand head roll, all upholstered in green leather. The sidewindows, which are double, are furnished with the CurtainSupply Companys Forsyth roller-top fixtures attached toPantasote curtains on the regular spring roller. Roundbar metal basket racks are installed throughout. Although fourteen i6-cp lamps were provided on eachside, equivalent to spacing them 3-ft. centers, additional in- For convenience in moving cars in and about the carhouse, every car carries two copper sliding bows. SCHEDULES AND OPERATING FEATURESThe company will operate cars in trains from the unionterminal at Sixty-Ninth and Market Streets to Straffordin about twenty-eight minutes. Adding the nineteen min-utes required to make the run from the business center on 1064 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIX. No. 24. and secondary re

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