Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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wide. The step lioights .ue 17 in. from rail lorunning board, i,?l. in. from running; lioard lo sill step, aud 7/^ in.frcitn sill sup to lloor. 1 U- pil^l^ h.ive a deep setting in bracketsihrough which they are linlu-il to ihe sills. The sweep is 5 in.(•■roin center lo center of posts is _■ ft. 6 in., aud between cornerposts aud first side posts. 3 ft. 5 in. Iroin Ihe center of cornerposts over crown pieces is 4 ft.; length of the car over crown pieces.40 ft. 43ji in. The corner po.sts are ,v5^ in. thick, and the side postsj^ in.; width over sills. 7 ft. gA in., and over posts at belt, 8 ft.7/i! in. The crossings are of white oak, 3^ x 5;« in., substantiallybracketed to the side sills and bra^red with iliagonal crossings,^H X 4!/2 in. .kngle iron bumpers of the builders patented makeare bolted to heavy castings at Ihe ends of Ihe side sills, aud ar-ranged at the ccnier to resist blows by a backing which transmitsthe force f contact lo stringers secured to the body bolsters and
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■.\.\Kri-\i:.\.\si:TT .\H IllH IKKI u-rmiiialing at braced crossings. Truss rods wiih kiiiy po^K 5 n,i) ill. apart strengthen const ruction. The running boards arc ilivuledat the center as the length of ihe car is too great for convcniciil li:uililing in a single piece. Having 15 benches with capacity of ;i\eadult passengers lo a bench, the total for the car is seventy-tivr.The curtains caii be drawn to the lloor as the seats are providedwith round corner seat end panels, .\mong oilier patented special-ties with which the car is i-(;viippeil. are ISiill sand-boxes, r.idial Fireproofing for Electrical t^ablcs. Ihe II. W. Johns-Manvillc Co., ICO William St.. New \orkCity, has devised an insulating covering for electrical cables forthe purpose of fireproofing Ihem, thereby preventing, in case of onecable becoming short circuited, the ignition of others in proximity10 it. The new material was first used by the Niagara Falls PowerCo., hence it is called Niagrite. It is made in thicknesse

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