. The Street railway journal . CAR FOR YUCATAN Sons, uses about 150 cars for the 33 miles of track com-prising the system. The open and closed cars in use arefrom 12 ft. to 10 ft. in length, but the present car, whichwas ordered through Thebaud Bros., of New York, is but8 ft. in length. The seats and backs of the car are up-holstered in leather; the interiors are of cherry and ashand the blinds which make up the equipment are of the samematerial. The length of the car over crown pieces is 14 truck used is remarkable on account of its short wheelbase, which is but 4 ft, January 5, 1907.]
. The Street railway journal . CAR FOR YUCATAN Sons, uses about 150 cars for the 33 miles of track com-prising the system. The open and closed cars in use arefrom 12 ft. to 10 ft. in length, but the present car, whichwas ordered through Thebaud Bros., of New York, is but8 ft. in length. The seats and backs of the car are up-holstered in leather; the interiors are of cherry and ashand the blinds which make up the equipment are of the samematerial. The length of the car over crown pieces is 14 truck used is remarkable on account of its short wheelbase, which is but 4 ft, January 5, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 37 CARS FOR ROCHESTER DIVISION OF THE ERIE MORE SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR MOBILE, ALA, As the progress in the electrification of steam roads isbeing watched with much interest, the cars recently builtby the St. Louis Car Company for operation on the Roches-ter division of the Erie Railroad, now being equipped with. EXTERIOR OF ELECTRIC CAR FOR ERIE RAILROAD electricity, will no doubt be of special interest. Combinationpassenger and baggage and passenger and smoker typeswere built. They measure 51 ft. 4 ins. in length over all and An article in the Street Railway Journal of April 7 oflast year commented upon the strong favor in which thesemi-convertible car was held in Mobile, the article goingon to describe both single and double-truck cars of the Brill -type which had lately been placed on thelines. The American Car Company hasnow completed an order of six double-truck semi-convertiblecars of the same type for the MobileLight & Railroad Company, and in ad-dition there is now in course of con-struction at the St. Louis works six sin-gle-truck cars of the same the vestibules the double-truck carsmeasure 40 ft. 10 ins.; width over thesills, including sheathing, 8 ft. 2 other dimensions are : Height fromthe floor to the ceiling, 8 ft. ^ in.;height from the tr
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