. Electric railway journal . lting from therapid growth of Detroit. Twenty-five motor cars will becompleted first and then fifty trailers, following whichseventy-five more trailers will be built. At the presenttime several motor cars have been completed and placedin service and others are passing through the shops onthe schedule mentioned. In addition to the above programthe company is now arranging details for the constructionof interurban passenger cars. In connection with this extensive car construction pro-gram there are several features of interest concerning theconstruction details of th
. Electric railway journal . lting from therapid growth of Detroit. Twenty-five motor cars will becompleted first and then fifty trailers, following whichseventy-five more trailers will be built. At the presenttime several motor cars have been completed and placedin service and others are passing through the shops onthe schedule mentioned. In addition to the above programthe company is now arranging details for the constructionof interurban passenger cars. In connection with this extensive car construction pro-gram there are several features of interest concerning theconstruction details of the car. The various parts arebuilt as units on templates and later assembled. Themethods of construction will be explained in an articlewhich will appear in a later issue of this paper. The body bolsters are built up in truss type from ^-in. x9-in. material as the top plate and 1-in. x 9-in. as the bottomplate. In the floor the end sills consist of two 3-in. channelsbolted together 12 in. apart and separated by a plate. These.
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