. The Street railway journal . ft., and over vestibules, 43 ft. 5 ins.; width overposts, 8 ft. 2 ins., and over sill plates, 7 ft. ins.; height frombottom of sill to top of roof, 8 ft. 1034 ins.; height from rail totop of roof, 11 ft. 1034 ins.; height from top of floor to under-side of ceiling, 8 ft. 2^ ins.; width over drip rails and guardrails, 8 ft. 5% ins- The cars are divided into two compartments, the one forsmokers being 11 ft. 6 ins. long, and the other 22 ft. 6 ins. Thewindows are arranged to be raised high enough to allow 4 ins. clear from top of floor and lower edge of bottom
. The Street railway journal . ft., and over vestibules, 43 ft. 5 ins.; width overposts, 8 ft. 2 ins., and over sill plates, 7 ft. ins.; height frombottom of sill to top of roof, 8 ft. 1034 ins.; height from rail totop of roof, 11 ft. 1034 ins.; height from top of floor to under-side of ceiling, 8 ft. 2^ ins.; width over drip rails and guardrails, 8 ft. 5% ins- The cars are divided into two compartments, the one forsmokers being 11 ft. 6 ins. long, and the other 22 ft. 6 ins. Thewindows are arranged to be raised high enough to allow 4 ins. clear from top of floor and lower edge of bottom railwhen the sash is up. The windows are of the twin-windowstyle with the deck sashes of corresponding configuration. Thesashes in the vestibule, both front and side, have pockets in thewainscoting. The platform doors at the platform entrances arehinged to the vestibule posts. The seating capacity of each caris forty-eight, the smoking compartment accommodating six-teen. The interiors are finished in natural cherry with maple. EXTERIOR OF CAR FOR THE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY, BUFFALO, N. Y. ceilings. The angle-iron buffers at each end have a piece ofsheet-steel fastened to the buffer and set at an angle of 45 the dasher to which it is bolted. This is to preventpersons from securing a foothold on the buffers. The Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Company is sellingcombination baseball and* fare tickets for games in Cleveland. June 4, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 871 TROLLEY HARP The Liberty Bell Company, of Bristol, Conn., has broughtout an improved trolley harp which permits the wheel to turnfreely in mat ing curves, thereby avoiding the grinding contactwhich undul; wears out both wheel and wire. Other importantadvantages (if this harp are the arrangements for readily re-moving and replacing the trolley wheel, and for insuring con-tinuous coitact betweenthe trolley wheel and theharp to prevent arcing. It is well understood thatthe movement of the car inturning curve
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