. The Street railway journal . .The sash in the windows of the cabs are double, the upper portiondropping when desired. The other side of the platform has the plates projecting into the hood, as in steam car construction, a com-paratively small amount of damage to the hood calls for the splicingof the top plate, and possibly the rails. This is a costly job,usually involving the letter-board panel with the inside finish ofthe car as well. The steam car construction is much more costly,as plates and rails have to be in these cars at least 8 ft. longerthan would otherwise be necessary. The repair
. The Street railway journal . .The sash in the windows of the cabs are double, the upper portiondropping when desired. The other side of the platform has the plates projecting into the hood, as in steam car construction, a com-paratively small amount of damage to the hood calls for the splicingof the top plate, and possibly the rails. This is a costly job,usually involving the letter-board panel with the inside finish ofthe car as well. The steam car construction is much more costly,as plates and rails have to be in these cars at least 8 ft. longerthan would otherwise be necessary. The repair of the separatehood is a small matter, and its complete destruction does notnecessarily involve any injury to the body. The body of the car shows an interesting combination of steamand street car practice. As in street car work, there are nopanels between the windows, but a sort of compromise is posts are made in halves and hollowed out to take a tie-roddown through the center. The halves are glued together, thus. FIG. 2.—INTERIOR OF BROOKLYN ELEVATED CAR obtaining space for the steam car tie-rod without using a doublepost. The strength obtained is greater than that of the single post,but is nut quite equal to that of the double posts, with the outsidepanel and the blocking. At the bottom of the window there is theusual heavy steam car rail gained upon the posts and tying the
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