. Electric railway journal . ght-hand side, and then the snow may bewinged up to 8 ft. outside the rail. During a recentstorm these cars were operated at full speed, and afterpassing up one track and down the other, left the streetclean to the rails for a total width of 31 ft. 4 in. Theiroperation during the winter has been very diagonal scrapers were designed by the engineersof the Michigan United Traction Company, in consulta-tion with F. N. Root, and are being manufactured forgeneral sale by the Root Spring Scraper Company,Kalamazoo, Mich. STEEL UNDERFRAME CARS FOR PINE BLU
. Electric railway journal . ght-hand side, and then the snow may bewinged up to 8 ft. outside the rail. During a recentstorm these cars were operated at full speed, and afterpassing up one track and down the other, left the streetclean to the rails for a total width of 31 ft. 4 in. Theiroperation during the winter has been very diagonal scrapers were designed by the engineersof the Michigan United Traction Company, in consulta-tion with F. N. Root, and are being manufactured forgeneral sale by the Root Spring Scraper Company,Kalamazoo, Mich. STEEL UNDERFRAME CARS FOR PINE BLUFF. ARK Within the past year the Southern Car Company,High Point, N. C, built for the Pine Bluff Company,Pine Bluff, Ark., twelve steel underframe single-truck,arch-roof cars of the type illustrated, in accordancewith the designs of Ford, Bacon & Davis, consultingengineers. These cars are completely vestibuled withhinged doors so that no bulkhead doors were considerednecessary. The platform steps are fixed. The principal. Arch-Roof Single-Truck Car Without Bulkhead Doors dimensions of these cars are as follows: Length of thecar body over the bumpers, 33 ft. 10 in.; over the dash-ers, 32 ft. 4 in.; over the corner posts, 21 ft. 4 in.; overthe platform steps over all, 4 ft. 6 in.; over the sideposts, 8 ft. 3 in.; over the letterboards, 8 ft. 3y2 in.;over the upper drip rails, 8 ft. 6 in.; over the side-sill angles, 8 ft. 2y2 in.; distance from the top of therail to the top of the roof at the center, 10 ft. 8 11/16 in.; distance from the top of the rail to the floor level,2 ft. 9 11/16 in. The step heights are 1213/16 the top of the rails to the first step and 12 the first to the second step. The truck has awheelbase of 9 ft. and is fitted with 33-in. wheels. The side sills comprise lV4-in. x 12-in. steel platewith an angle at the bottom and a steel bar riveted tothe plate on the same side as the angle; the end sillsare 10-in., 15-lb. channels which are riveted to
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