Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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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provides seating capacity for fifty-two passengers. Thislength is about 4 ft. more than those of the existing ManhattanElevated Railroad cars, and enables a five-car local train, seat-ing 260 people, to load at the local station platforms. (2) The slope of the car outside, above the window sill,which was made necessary in order to obtain a wide andlong car on account of the limiting curve clearances inthe subway. (7,) The enclosed vestibule platforms with sliding doors in-stead of the usual gates. The enclosed platforms will con- 1NTERIOR FINISH AND METAL 636 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 15. tribute greatly to the comfort and safety of passengers undersubway conditions. (4) The anti-telescoping car bulkheads and platform posts.This construction is similar to that in use on Pullman cars, andhas been demonstrated in steam railroad service to be an im-portant safety provision against the disastrous results of col-lisions. (5) The steel underframing of the car, which provides a
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VIEW OF THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CAR WITH THE GIRDER SJ DE-PLATES iN PLACE rigid and durable bed structure for transmitting the heavy mo-tive power stresses. (6) The numerous protective devices against defects in theelectrical apparatus. (7) Windows, having stationary lower sash, to guardagainst drafts. (8) Emergency brake valve on truck, operating in connec-tion with the block-signal system. (9) Emergency brake valve in connection with master con-troller. (10) Copper sheathing on outside of car. Some features of interest and of novelty in electric car con-struction were introduced in the form of wooden frame mem-bers, reinforced heavily by structural steel shapes. The sidesills are of 6-in. channels, which are enclosed on both sides bywhite oak timbers, and the center sills are 5-in. I-beams, facedn both sides with Southern pine. The .car-body end sills arealso of steel shapes, securely attached to the side sills by steelcastings and forgings, the end-sill channel being faced wit

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