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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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ving the aisle 25 in. wide with i6lA-in. seats.The seats are upholstered in spring cane and have step-over backs.The general dimensions of the cars are as follows: Length overthe end panels 3g ft. 8 in., and over crown pieces 49 ft. 8 in.; frompanel over crown, 5 ft.; centers of posts, 2 ft. 8 in.; the side sillsare 4% x 7ZA in. and the end sills are 4 x 634 in.; sill plates, 12x Y% in.; thickness of corner post, 3.54 in., and of side post. .Viin. The cars are mounted on the American Car Cos. M. C. B.trucks, type of truck No. 15, with wheel base of 6 ft. 2 in. and 33 in.diameter of wheels. The rolling stock for the interurban lines includes the followingequipment: Fifteen cars with 30 to 45-ft. bodies and four G E -57motors, 3 cars with 30-ft. bodies and four G E -1000 motors, 4 carswith 40-ft. bodies and four G E -74 motors, 15 cars with 50-ft. bodiesand four G E -73 motors, 3 cars with 60-ft. bodies and four G E -73motors. There has been adopted as a conventional sign for use on all
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FORTY-TON FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE. cars the neat monogram shown in the accompanying illustration. Asit appears on the side of a car in brightly-colored paints the designis especially pleasing. A button bearing this monogram is worn bymany employes. Freight Equipment. The extensive freight and express traffic which is carried on over the entire system is handled by the following equipment: 2 locomo- miilar to the one illustrated; 2 motor cars for hauling various freight and work trains; (2 express-baggage cars equipped with four 65-h. p. motors, and air brakes; 60 gondola cars for handling coal; 102 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW (Vol. XVI, No. 2. 12 center-dump freight cars; 4 Rodgers ballast cars; 12 side-dumpcoal cars, and 16 standard steam-road box cars of 60,000-lb. capacityfor grain and bay traffic. There arc also being built at Danville andSt. Louis four more express cars which will be equipped with fourmotors each, type M control and air brakes. The 40-ton locomotives were built in the Danvi

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