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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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s were longitudinal and prob-ably central. It was probably within a year of this date that OsgoodBradley, of Worcester, Mass., a coach builder, constructedhis first steam cars. The order came from an Easternroad, and when completed they were hauled from Worces-ter to Boston by ox teams. These cars consisted of threecoach bodies set upon a single long frame. They were adistinct step in advance of those on the Mohawk & Hud-son Road. They probably seated from thirty-six to forty-eight passengers each. Strict chronological order is not easily followed in thehistory of this early work. The first train in America hadnot completed its first round trip before some of the newconditions of the new method of traveling made them-selves apparent. Survivors of that trip told amusing sto-ries of how, by means of fence rails wedged between thecarriages, they mitigated those longitudinal shocks whichthrew them from their seats, and which from that day tothis has been the bane of steam railroading.
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Strn-t Ry.Jm.riKil September 7, I901.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 251 The second step in car construction appears to havebeen taken by Ross Winans, of Baltimore. He apparentlysaw the necessities of the case at once. It seems that hisfirst cars were radical departures from the coach bodyform. He built a long car, removed the steps from thesides to the ends, made end entrances, and introduced acenter aisle with cross seats. At the same time he framedthe sides and floors with sufficient strength to resist thelongitudinal shocks. He practically gave the steam car itsmodern form. From this time forward the old-fashionedcoach framing was pretty generally abandoned among theleading steam roads. The first street cars, like the first on steam roads, werecoaches having wheels fitted for use on rails. Stephen-son, the father of street railway cars, followed the samelines as the steam railway car builders, and at one timeused these coach bodies built together. Finally headopted the omnibus body, len

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