The Street railway journal (1907) (14573178818)

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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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Before starting on the trip trte car stops infront of the principal hotels and the guide with the mega-phone enters the lobby and announces the arrival of the car. The company derives considerable receipts from charteredcars, there usually being ten or twelve cars chartered perweek for picnic parties or for trolley rides gotten up by dif-ferent societies. The charges for an open bench car witha capacity for forty-five people is $3 for the first hour, $2.50for the second hour and $2 for each succeeding hour. 2l8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXX. No. 6. A RADICAL DESIGN OF SEMI-STEEL CAR The new semi-steel cars of the Milwaukee Railway &Light Company, built for service on the recently constructedsingle-phase interurban systems west and southwest of Mil-waukee, are different in almost every detail from previous1types of steel cars. The most out-of-the-ordinary featuresof this type of car are the method of supporting the plat-forms, the construction of the bottom framing, as necessi-

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:rvice on an interurban tated by the limited headroom, the height of the arm restand the manner in which the lower sash are raised upagainst the roof inside the side plate. The car was de-signed by E. W. Olds, superintendent of rolling stock of placed as low as possible, and as built the flange of thewheels may come within 1^4 ins. of the bottom of the floor.With 36-in. wheels the height of the floor with the car bodylight is 41^4 ins. above the rail or about 8 ins. lower than iscustomary with wood or steel under-framing. The trus-sing effect of the car body is practically all obtained by steelside plates extending from the floor to the arm rest. The only longitudinal member under the car floor is a10-in. 25-lb. channel, which extends under the center of the car continuously frombumper to bumper.At the end sills andbolsters this channelis offset so as to avoidcutting any of themembers. The chan-nel passes between thetop and bottom mem-bers of the bolsters.Between the bolsterand the bu

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