. The Street railway journal . FIG. TWELVE-BENCH UIEN CAR 514 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 14. with angle-iron. A somewhat novel feature has been intro-duced in the platforms by fastening on the top of the regularplatform flooring wooden strips 2 ins. wide, with i/2-in. spacebetween them. These strips are similar to those used in theinside of the car, but are run cross-ways instead of longi-tudinally. The object is to drain the water from the platforms,and they certainly make a very dry and clean looking FIG. 23.—ILLUMINATED SIGN The edge of the step is protect
. The Street railway journal . FIG. TWELVE-BENCH UIEN CAR 514 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 14. with angle-iron. A somewhat novel feature has been intro-duced in the platforms by fastening on the top of the regularplatform flooring wooden strips 2 ins. wide, with i/2-in. spacebetween them. These strips are similar to those used in theinside of the car, but are run cross-ways instead of longi-tudinally. The object is to drain the water from the platforms,and they certainly make a very dry and clean looking FIG. 23.—ILLUMINATED SIGN The edge of the step is protected with The Universal SafetyTread. The cars, which are built by the J. G. Brill Company,are mounted on traction trucks and are fitted withportable vestibules. One of the twelve-bench open cars, which were also built bythe Brill Company, is shown in Fig. 22. The principal dimen-sions of this car are as follows: Length over crown pieces,38 ft. 9 ins.; distance from center of corner posts over crownpieces, 3 ft. 8 ins.; width over sills. 7 ft. 5 ins.; width over postsat belt rail, 7 ft. 10 ins. The side sills are 4^4 ins. x 7 ins., andare plated with 5,.^-in. x 9-in. steel; the crown pieces are 2^ins. X 12 ins., and the cross joists arc 3^2 ins. x 6j4 ins. The car is fitted with a 9-in. running board with folding step- iou >■ , ,;J K 1 1/ _—3 Fnmt ^■ie\v
Size: 2716px × 920px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
