. The Street railway journal . p plate of thetruck flush with the bottom. A crack started from theend of this notch. It is probable from the position inwhich the cars were standing at the time the photographwas taken that the hood was not the result ofactual wear and tear, but came from the careless way inwhich the cars were run upon the side track where theyare at present dropping to pieces from decay. The ruinof the car shown in Fig. 2 may be said to be due to baddesign partly coupled with bad workmanship, but whenthe atrocious treatment which it received is considered thewonder is
. The Street railway journal . p plate of thetruck flush with the bottom. A crack started from theend of this notch. It is probable from the position inwhich the cars were standing at the time the photographwas taken that the hood was not the result ofactual wear and tear, but came from the careless way inwhich the cars were run upon the side track where theyare at present dropping to pieces from decay. The ruinof the car shown in Fig. 2 may be said to be due to baddesign partly coupled with bad workmanship, but whenthe atrocious treatment which it received is considered thewonder is not so much that the car went to pieces, but that 538 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XII. No. 9. it stood so many years of severe usage. It must be pre-mised however that it is a considerably younger car thanFig. I. The panels at the posts were rather poorly con-structed. The seat ends have split away from them insome places, and in others have cracked and gone to piecesin a way that is not at all complimentary to the manufact-. FIG. 2.—OLD OPEN CAR. urer. Their weakness had something to do with theracking of the roof. Fig. 3 is a box car from another manufacturer. Thebody has held its shape fairly well, although the postshave sprung outward at the top, giving it the appearanceof having more than its proper camber. The roof hasgone down, even the trussed trolley board being unable tosave it. Here we come to one of the peculiar features ofmonitor roof building. There was no lack of strength inthe timbers or carlins to hold up the trolley. It was sim-ply impossible in the old fashioned method of constructionto make the joints at the angles in the carlins strongenough to stand the strain. To-day we put in iron carlins well be imagined. It may be taken for granted that from thetime it left the shop until the day it went on to the sidetrack the only attention the canvas received was at un-certain intervals a coat of paint. The letter board partedfrom the post and was reinforced at
Size: 2076px × 1203px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
