. Electric railway journal . as practiced in small single-truck city cars. The underframe is built up without shearing sub-sills rest directly on the truck; cross sillson sub-sills and side sills on ends of cross sills; allriveted together with gussets or angles. The sides are plate cantilever girders from sills toletter panels. Continuous top plates or continuous post-carlines are optional with purchaser. We advise continuoustop plates and separate carlines. The letter panels form a continuous steel hoop en-tirely around top of car preventing sagging orspreading. We recommend soli
. Electric railway journal . as practiced in small single-truck city cars. The underframe is built up without shearing sub-sills rest directly on the truck; cross sillson sub-sills and side sills on ends of cross sills; allriveted together with gussets or angles. The sides are plate cantilever girders from sills toletter panels. Continuous top plates or continuous post-carlines are optional with purchaser. We advise continuoustop plates and separate carlines. The letter panels form a continuous steel hoop en-tirely around top of car preventing sagging orspreading. We recommend solid side walls of steel, cork andAgasote, wooden floor and double roof with dead-air space. Parts are riveted and separable, being welded onlywhere necessary to exclude Length, 32 feet o inches; Seating Capacity, 32. NILES ALL SERVICE CAR It can be operated one-man or two-men, near-sideor far-side, single-end or double-end. prepayment orcollect. In fact, it meets all requirements for single-truck cars for small cities and non-paying branchesor feeders of large systems. Let us tell you more about it. PREDICTION The single truck car of the future will be run byone man and will convert many non-paying lines intoprofitable ones. Depressed separable platforms will be steel underframe will extend continuous frombuffer to buffer, with step and door openings cut outat right of motorman. It will be mounted on a truck with long wheel base,small diameter wheels and motors to allow low steps. The body will weigh about 10,000 pounds, seat about30 and carry double that number. Tt will be of light steel construction of standardcommercial shapes and sheets which can be replacedindependently of the car builder. We arc building that car now and can supp
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