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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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its own cars at the rail-road, handling it to the water shop, and from there to themain armory, entirely as a trolley freight proposition. The only place where the Springfield system of electricrailways will move cars from the railroad over its lines, Mr.Storrs states, will be around Brimfield, in the district be-tween Springfield and Worcester. Here the electric rail-ways parallel the Boston & Albany Railroad about sevenmiles distant from it; and the towns have recognized thatit would be of advantage to have the cars from the steamroad shifted by electric power to the various factories inthe territory. They have limited the company to five-cartrains of this sort. February 8, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 213 THE BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT COMPANYS TYPE 1400 ELEVATED CAR The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company is now placing inservice 100 elevated cars of its latest semi-convertible typeknown as the 1400. Fifty of these cars were built bythe Laconia Car Company and fifty by the Jewett Car
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EXTERIOR OF BROOKLYN ELEVATED CAR Company, but the installation of the operating equipmentis being done in the Thirty-Ninth Street shop of the rail- bodied many radical changes, practically all of which havebeen retained in the latest design. The important changesrelate to trucks, motors, control and wiring. Like all the other elevated rolling stock of this railway,the cars have trolley poles for surface operation on theoutlying sections of some of the lines. In size the cars are49 ft. 3 ins. over all, with a 40-ft. 5-in. body containingHale & Kilburn longitudinal andcenter cross seats for 54 passengersand standing room for 85 more. Itwill be noticed from the dimensionsgiven that the platforms, which arefurnished with Pitt gates, are of lib-eral length, a feature which is be-lieved more desirable and less dan-gerous than center door cars forhandling heavy traffic. The carbody is 8 ft. gyi ins. wide over thedrip rail and the height over all is12 ft. ins. The dimensions givenare pra

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