. The Street railway journal . CLOSED CAR FOR THE NEW ORLEANS TRACTION CO. eighteen foot bodies with four foot platforms, and are ex-tremely tasteful in finish. The seats are of slats coveredwith Wilton carpet, and Stanwood steps are cars are from the works of the J. G. Brill Company,of Philadelphia, which also supplied the trucks. West-inghouse No. 3 motors are used, with Nuttall gears andtrolleys. The cars are equipped with Baltimore sandboxes, St. Louis registers, and Whitney thirty-three inchwheels. The fender in use is that known as the Californiatype, consisting of a horizon
. The Street railway journal . CLOSED CAR FOR THE NEW ORLEANS TRACTION CO. eighteen foot bodies with four foot platforms, and are ex-tremely tasteful in finish. The seats are of slats coveredwith Wilton carpet, and Stanwood steps are cars are from the works of the J. G. Brill Company,of Philadelphia, which also supplied the trucks. West-inghouse No. 3 motors are used, with Nuttall gears andtrolleys. The cars are equipped with Baltimore sandboxes, St. Louis registers, and Whitney thirty-three inchwheels. The fender in use is that known as the Californiatype, consisting of a horizontal board tipped with rubber,and carried at the base of a vertical board. The com-pany also has two Brill sweepers for clearing the tracks ofsnow in winter, and two tower wagons of its own make. tion, No. 22 trucks, with thirty-three inch driving wheels,and equipped with Crawford fenders. Twenty-six out ofthe 226 cars are now in operation in New Orleans, andare giving excellent service, and fifty more will be inoperation withi
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