. Electric railway journal . Illinois Traction System Shops—Standard Cast Steel Body Bolster Electric liy. Journal The shop work in connection with the re-equipment ofthe 20 single-phase cars for 600-volt operation willinclude rebuilding the platforms; installation of motormensstandard cabs; rearranging the floors to carry equip-ment; addition of automatic couplers; standardizing thesteps, grab handles and buffer beams; installing automatic of passenger cars end doors are built in the vestibules topermit of train operation. In removing the drop platform and carrying forward theunderf
. Electric railway journal . Illinois Traction System Shops—Standard Cast Steel Body Bolster Electric liy. Journal The shop work in connection with the re-equipment ofthe 20 single-phase cars for 600-volt operation willinclude rebuilding the platforms; installation of motormensstandard cabs; rearranging the floors to carry equip-ment; addition of automatic couplers; standardizing thesteps, grab handles and buffer beams; installing automatic of passenger cars end doors are built in the vestibules topermit of train operation. In removing the drop platform and carrying forward theunderframing, new 6-in. I-beam sill extensions are buttedagainst each of the main sills and joined with */^-in. x bolted on either side and extending from transom. Finished Size of Axle Illinois Traction System Shops—Standard Motor Axle Electric Ry. Journal air brakes and changing wheels, axles and springs to ac-commodate this d*c. equipment. STANDARDIZING CAR ENDS The drop platforms on all cars used in interurban serv-ice are being replaced with straight floors. When a caris received in the shops for standardization the entire plat-form and hood to a point back of the corner posts areremoved. Then the framing of the sills and roof is car- to bumper. This new underframing is tied together at theends with yi-in. x 5-in. U-shaped plates placed just backof the bumper. The bumper blocks are built out to a radiusof 4 ft. 10 in. and extend 16 in. forward of the dash atthe center of the car. Inasmuch as trouble has been ex-perienced in the past with the bending down of the bumperblock from shocks when coupling, the new bumpers as in-stalled are not only bolted to the plates which tie the ends 638 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXIII. No. 14. of the
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