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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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em connecting the importantcities to the south and west of Chicago. Joliet is one of the mostimportant railway centers in the state. The cars are built for high-speed service and are mounted on Brill 27-E trucks, capable of aspeed rivaling that of the steam railroads. -•Vs shown in the illustration, the ctrs have straight sides and arevestibuled at both ends, and althovigh mounted on high speed trucksthe arrangement is such that only single platform steps are re-quired, the step being 17^ in. from the rail and 14!/ it. from stepto platform. The cars seat fifty passengers, the capacity of thesmoking compartment being twenty. The seats have high backs, areupholstered in leather and are 36 in. long. The aisles are 2\y< in.wid.-, and the interior finish is quartered oak with ceilings of thesame. Large plate glass windows are arranged for the lower sashto drop into window pockets, the upper sash being stationary. Atoilet room of the standard character is situated at tlie parlitiim he-
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Ii -roj-iTTT. i*r^j l~ii:i-.U Ik At.HUHA !■? TSiWi 1904. Increase. $59,607 $820 37.C98 2.254 22,509 *.4.M 22,466 1,500 42 *2,g35 .6224 .0297 .\.VIER1CAN CAR C0. HIGH SPEIOM cAltS tween the passenger and smoking comparlnicnts and parcel rackson either side run the entire length uf the car. The trim through-out is solid bronze. The length of the cars over end panels is 36 ft. and the lengthover crown pieces 46 ft. From panel over crown piece is 5 ft. andw idth over sills 8 ft. 8 in.; width over posts 8 ft. 9!4 in. Fromcenter lo center of posts 2 ft. 8 in.; side sills are 5 by 8 in. of longleaf yellow pine, plated with -yi by 8 in. steel. The end sills arc5 .\ 7 in. of white oak. Thickness of corner posts 3J4 in. and ofside posts 3 in. Ihe trucks have a wheel base of 6 ft., 33-in.wheels, and arc equipped with two 38-h. p. motors each. The sideframes are solid forged and the transoms are double bracketed withforged brackets made from single billets, an exceedingly substantialconstructio

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