. The Street railway journal . s fastened to end plates with two heavy boltsriveted to the I-beams and bolted through the endplates and sills. The end sills are 434 ins. x 8 ins.,with sub-sills 2 5-16 ins. x 4% ins., extending the fullwidth of the bottom frame and double mortised at theends to receive the ends of the side sills. The endsills have a 5-in. x J/2-m. steel plate on the inside, with the ends turned 8 ins. and bolted with ^-in. bolts through thelongitudinal plates. The cross framing is of 5-in. x 2% oak, double-tenoned into the sills. The needle beams are12-lb. 5-in. I-beams
. The Street railway journal . s fastened to end plates with two heavy boltsriveted to the I-beams and bolted through the endplates and sills. The end sills are 434 ins. x 8 ins.,with sub-sills 2 5-16 ins. x 4% ins., extending the fullwidth of the bottom frame and double mortised at theends to receive the ends of the side sills. The endsills have a 5-in. x J/2-m. steel plate on the inside, with the ends turned 8 ins. and bolted with ^-in. bolts through thelongitudinal plates. The cross framing is of 5-in. x 2% oak, double-tenoned into the sills. The needle beams are12-lb. 5-in. I-beams, placed 5 ft. apart from center to inside truss rods are 2-in. x i/^-m. flat iron, and the undertruss rods are iJ/s ins. in diameter, and secured to the bolstersand side sills with 3-in. x 34-in. wrought iron straps. The plat-form knees are of white oak, 234 ins. x 8 ins.; the outside kneesare reinforced by 3-in. x 4-in. x y2-in. angle-iron, and theinside knees have steel plates, 5 ins. x 34 in., securely bolted to. INTERIOR OF CAR FOR INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY the center sills of the car. The buffers are 3*4-in. x 6-in. x3/£-in. angle-iron of the builders special type. The general dimensions of the cars are as follows: Lengthover body, 34 ft., and over vestibules, 43 ft. 5 ins.; width overposts, 8 ft. 2 ins., and over sill plates, 7 ft. ins.; height frombottom of sill to top of roof, 8 ft. 1034 ins.; height from rail totop of roof, 11 ft. 1034 ins.; height from top of floor to under-side of ceiling, 8 ft. 2^ ins.; width over drip rails and guardrails, 8 ft. 5% ins- The cars are divided into two compartments, the one forsmokers being 11 ft. 6 ins. long, and the other 22 ft. 6 ins. Thewindows are arranged to be raised high enough to allow 4 ins. clear from top of floor and lower edge of bottom railwhen the sash is up. The windows are of the twin-windowstyle with the deck sashes of corresponding configuration. Thesashes in the vestibule, both front and side,
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