. The street railway review . uih and equipped, is described and illustrated in an attractive pamphletissued bv the universitv. 390 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XV, No. 6. High-Speed Cars for the Coeur dAlenc &Spokane Ry. Four handsome interurban cars, built by tlie J. G. Brill Co., haverecently been delivered to the Coeur dAlene & Spokane Ry. Twoof the new cars are combination passenger, smoking and baggagemotor cars, and the other two are trailers. They are mounted onthe Brill No. 27-E-2 trucks designed for high ?pecd. ilar to those used un PulluKui cars. The hnlloni framing is ini-usually s
. The street railway review . uih and equipped, is described and illustrated in an attractive pamphletissued bv the universitv. 390 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XV, No. 6. High-Speed Cars for the Coeur dAlenc &Spokane Ry. Four handsome interurban cars, built by tlie J. G. Brill Co., haverecently been delivered to the Coeur dAlene & Spokane Ry. Twoof the new cars are combination passenger, smoking and baggagemotor cars, and the other two are trailers. They are mounted onthe Brill No. 27-E-2 trucks designed for high ?pecd. ilar to those used un PulluKui cars. The hnlloni framing is ini-usually substantial, and consists of double side sills, the outer4x85^ in. and the inner 2x6 in., with a i5x->^-in. steel platesandwiched between. The four center sills are composed of with yellow pine fillers. The truss rods under the sidesills are tA in. in diameter and the needle beams are double floors are double and have % in. of felt between. The interiorsarc pleasingly finished in golden -lErR 1) ,V t ix A M i\ . The combination cars are 51 ft. over the crown pieces, and 8 in. wide. While the semi-convertible window system is applicableto the arched top twin window arrangement, only part of it isused in this case; that is, the lower sash when raised is partly con-tained in the side roof, the bottom of the lower sash being equallyas high as the bottom of the small stationary uppersash. The seats in the smoking and passenger com-partments are of spring cane, while the baggagecompartment has a seat of cherry slats on each sliding doors of the baggage compartment oneach side of the car are 40 in. wide, and the doorin the partition between the baggage compartmentand the motormans compartment is 24 in. wide. Inthe center of the car is a small toilet compartment. The trailers are 48 ft. 9 in. over the crown piecesand 8 ft. 8 in. wide. The window system is tliesame as in the cars above described. Entrances arcprovided at both ends.
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