. The Street railway journal . FIG. 20.—45-FOOT HIGH-SPEED INTERURBAN CAR terurban cars ever built, and, so far as is known, this state-ment is correct. The standard interurban car of the Jewett Company isshown in Fig. 20. It has Pullman windows and platforms deck-plates are of yellow pine in continuous lengths with-out splicing. Tie-rods are well anchored to bolster andsills. The window braces have tension-rods from theheads of the braces through the sills. This is a detail from. FIG. 25.—PLAN OF CAR SHOWN IN FIG. 23 flush with the floor of the car, the center and the interme-diate sills runn
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 20.—45-FOOT HIGH-SPEED INTERURBAN CAR terurban cars ever built, and, so far as is known, this state-ment is correct. The standard interurban car of the Jewett Company isshown in Fig. 20. It has Pullman windows and platforms deck-plates are of yellow pine in continuous lengths with-out splicing. Tie-rods are well anchored to bolster andsills. The window braces have tension-rods from theheads of the braces through the sills. This is a detail from. FIG. 25.—PLAN OF CAR SHOWN IN FIG. 23 flush with the floor of the car, the center and the interme-diate sills running to the ends of the vestibules. This con-struction, shown in Fig. 21, is of unusual strength. Thesills are I-beams with yellow pine fillers. The side-sills steam-car construction, which has proved its value, but isunusual in electric railway work. In these designs we havethe features of great floor strength and large seating ca-pacity emphasized. The behavior of these designs in actual
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