The Street railway journal (1904) (14575270990)

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Title: The Street railway journal

Year: 1884 (1880s)

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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation

Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.

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TWIN JCITYRAPID TRANSIT COMPANY special platform, shown above the cross section, in the draw-ing, having a hatch with a stairway, and so arranged as to pro-vide a passage from the stairs to either runway. This affordseasy access to both ends of the seats used upon the upper deck,which are placed crossways on the deck roof. The stairwayruns transversely, as shown in the front elevation, at the rearof the front vestibule, and is accessible only to passengers en-tering at the front of the car. Both front and rear entrancesto the car are made by two-tread steps, and are provided with November 5, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 839 standard double safety gates, used by the Twin City Company. The height permissible for the upper deck construction waslimited by the overhead line construction, and entrances to carhouses and viaducts. On account of the height required by adouble-deck car in any case, it was, of course, furthermore, de-sirable to make the appearance of the upper work as light as

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■j 7op of Rail PART END ELEVATION AND UPPER-DECK PLAN OF THE MIN-NEAPOLIS DOUBLE-DECK CAR, SHOWING DETAILS OFSTAIRWAY UPON FRONT PLATFORM possible. The upper structure consists of a frame work of i-in.gas pipe bolted to a 2>4-in. x 5-in. sill, which rests on specialfittings built permanently into the roof, providing an openingdown through the plate of the car framing, as shown in roofsection drawing. The sill is held by bolts passing down throughthis casting and bolted below. The canopy frame work is arched 2 ins., and at the ridge run-ning from front to rear are two 6-in. planks, the lower one cut-ting in between the piping of the frame and the upper con-tinuous. Toward the rear, a short plank, about 10 ft. long, isadded on each side for supporting the trolley base. On theunder side of this ridge plank is mounted the signal bell andlighting equipment. The top has a covering of awning material, and above this isone thickness of painted ducking. A strip of awning material18 ins. w

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