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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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The upper half of this door is glazed,like the others. When this door is shut, and The roof carlinesare connected bypurlines of lightsteel angles. Thecarlines are securedto malleable ironcastings which areriveted to the sideplates, and the pur-lines, which are ofabout the sameweight angle as thecarlines, are rivetedto the former withsmall angle braces.The carlines andpurlines are facedwith a furring ofmaple, secured bybolts, to which theroofing and head-lining are fastenedby wood screws. Maple blocks are also secured to the side plates, and hoodbows, for the support of the roof covering and the head-linings. The deck sills and deck plates are of maple, so thatthe roof and its lining can be readily put up with wood screws. A very-light roof covering is used, consisting of compositeboard %-in. thick, except over the vestibule, where it is of No.16 gage sheet steel, the v/hole being covered with heavycanvas laid on with white lead. The eaves of the car are made waterproof by running the
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FIG. 9.—STEEL MOTOR CAR the side doors closed, the entire vestibule is available as amotormans compartment, and the above mentioned controlapparatus is then entirely exposed. A view of the vestibuleunder these conditions is shown in Fig. 8. The body end doors are of the double sliding tvpe and arefitted with a door coupling device that will hold them in anydesired position to prevent them, from closing when trainsare rounding curves. The marker lamps which are mountedon the hood over the vestibule platforms are operated from August ii, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 223 inside of the vestibule by handles extending through thecanopy sheathing. The handles are fitted at the lower endwith discs carrying colored crystals that correspond to thecolor of the lenses on the four sides of the marker lamps. In the vestibule at the motor end of the car, just forwardof the end door pocket on the left-hand side facing forward,is placed a swinging door, made convex, of pressed steel so which are u

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