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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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the multiple notches,four in parallel. Whenever it is necessary for the wiringto go below the floor it is placed in an iron-armored interiorconduit. The Hunt air-brake is used, and the arrangement of thebrake levers on the car body is such as to give extremeflexibility (see Fig. 4.) The brake is worked from an in-dependent electric compressor. The steps were formed by cutting risers from ig-in. ironand riveting two of the old single steps in position to formone double step. The trucks were set well apart, so as to avoid an extremeoverhang on curves. This threw the front truck so far for-ward that the sand-rigging was placed in front of the backtruck; the sand valves from the two small cars being con->nected by a rocker shaft so as to sand both rails. In writing this article it was not the purpose to describean ideal car. But this makeshift may, for a very littlemoney, furnish some other road with a few good-looking,durable, easy-riding cars, capable of handling a very heavytraflic.
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of the posts. A section through a post is shown in Fig. 2.After putting in the truss rods the car was sided with round-corner white wood, i 1^ x i ^ in. The form-trussing used is shown in Fig. 3. This formof double truss effectvially prevents the sagging of any partof the car body, no matter how loaded. The under trusswas placed just inside the car sills, and covered by the seats.The over truss was let into the 4l4 ^ 12-in., and held closeto the siding, in order to have the necessary rise and notprevent the lowering of the windows near the center of thecar. The under truss was so placed as to secure a goodbearing on the old car as well as the new car sills. In closing the roof, finishing the sign-board, water-rail,etc., care was used to break joints wherever possible, buteven then, owing to the lightness of the frame and carlines,the roof would barely support its own weight, not to men-tion a heavv trolley stand, and the hob-nail shoes of a 190-pound inspector. The form of truss adopt

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