. Electric railway journal . Light Open Cars for AmusementPark Traffic United Railways of St. Louis Builds Type withSpecial Arrangement for Train Operation THE term moonlight car in St. Louis has beenhanded down from the time when the companyused to operate on pleasure trips and for special parktraffic a type of car constructed with a canvas roof whichcould be rolled back. The fact is the canvas was seldomrolled back and later twenty cars—ten leaders and tentrailers—of similar construction were built with a per-manent roof. Some time ago ten of these cars, ninetrailers and one leader, were des
. Electric railway journal . Light Open Cars for AmusementPark Traffic United Railways of St. Louis Builds Type withSpecial Arrangement for Train Operation THE term moonlight car in St. Louis has beenhanded down from the time when the companyused to operate on pleasure trips and for special parktraffic a type of car constructed with a canvas roof whichcould be rolled back. The fact is the canvas was seldomrolled back and later twenty cars—ten leaders and tentrailers—of similar construction were built with a per-manent roof. Some time ago ten of these cars, ninetrailers and one leader, were destroyed by fire and thecompany is now building ten new cars and making a fewimprovements over the older equipment. The underframe construction consists of 8-in., side sills, 3Hn. x 54-in. wooden cross sills ex-cept over thetrucks where32-in. x sillsare used with2-> in. x li-in. xi-m. T-iron lon-gitudinal mem-bers. The over-all length is 47ft. 3 in. and theover-all width 7ft. lOi1 in. Inthe new
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