. The Street railway journal . in the afternoon, for which the cash prizesfor winners and those who showed totaled $75. At 9 p. was a display of fireworks. A special feature of the daywas a prize waltz, the winner of which was to receive a cashprize of $10. 256 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. 7. OPEN CARS FOR MEXICO A number of open cars of the type illustrated have latelybeen delivered to the F. C. Urbano y Agricola de Oaxaca,Mexico, by the American Car Company. The cars will beoperated in Oaxaca, a city of some pretensions in the southernpart of Mexico. The railway company op
. The Street railway journal . in the afternoon, for which the cash prizesfor winners and those who showed totaled $75. At 9 p. was a display of fireworks. A special feature of the daywas a prize waltz, the winner of which was to receive a cashprize of $10. 256 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. 7. OPEN CARS FOR MEXICO A number of open cars of the type illustrated have latelybeen delivered to the F. C. Urbano y Agricola de Oaxaca,Mexico, by the American Car Company. The cars will beoperated in Oaxaca, a city of some pretensions in the southernpart of Mexico. The railway company operates fifty cars onits 18 miles of track in and about the city. The American CarCompany has supplied a large number of horse cars to LatinAmerica, the car illustrated being a representative type. The new cars have a seating capacity of forty, the seatshaving reversible backs. Curtains are provided which maybe drawn to the floor, the Brill patented round-corner seat-endpanels which are used being so arranged in connection with. OPEN CAR FOR OAXACA, MEXICO the grooves in the posts as to permit the curtains to come downover the post outside of the panels, a continuation of thegrooves of the posts being formed in the exterior surface ofthe panel. The panel also provides for an easy entrance, asthere are no sharp projecting corners, and increases the safetyof passengers compelled to stand on the running board. Theinteriors are finished in cherry and ash, with ceilings of carlinefinish. Brill gear trucks with a 7-ft. wheel base and are used. Dedenda gongs, ratchet brake handles andRetriever bells of the same manufacture are also included. The cars measure 17 ft. 3 ins. over the end panels and 22 ins. over crown pieces; from panel over crown, 2 ft. 10 ins.;width over sill facing, 5 ft. 10 ins., and over posts at belt, 6 ins.; center of posts, 2 ft. 5 3-14 ins.; side sill size, 3^ ins. x5 ins.; thickness of corner and side posts, 2^/4 ins.; height ofsteps, 17 i
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