. The Street railway journal . TRAIN OF CARS, GREAT NORTHERN & CITY RAILROAD Son, by Sir Douglas Fox & Partners, engineers. They are tobe run in trains of seven cars each, three of which, the two endand middle ones, are motor cars, to be used with the multipleunit system. The motor coaches have the following principal dimensions:Length of body outside, 40 ft. 8 ins.; length over platforms, 49ft. 6 ins.; width over side pillars, 9 ft. 4 ins.; width inside, clear,8 ft. 9 ins.; height inside at the center, 8 ft. 4 ins.; height of panels between the windows are inlaid with sycamore andpressed teak
. The Street railway journal . TRAIN OF CARS, GREAT NORTHERN & CITY RAILROAD Son, by Sir Douglas Fox & Partners, engineers. They are tobe run in trains of seven cars each, three of which, the two endand middle ones, are motor cars, to be used with the multipleunit system. The motor coaches have the following principal dimensions:Length of body outside, 40 ft. 8 ins.; length over platforms, 49ft. 6 ins.; width over side pillars, 9 ft. 4 ins.; width inside, clear,8 ft. 9 ins.; height inside at the center, 8 ft. 4 ins.; height of panels between the windows are inlaid with sycamore andpressed teak moulding. The other mouldings are of teak, theroof being finished with Lincrusta millboard, painted dull whiteand divided into eight transverse panels. The cars are provided with thirteen cross-seats on each side,giving accommodation for two passengers on each; the restof the seating capacity consists of short longitudinal seats ateither end; ample room is allowed per passenger. A combi-. StrV^l SIDE ELEVATION OF GREAT NORTHERN & CITY RAILROAD doorway, clear, 6 ft. 3 ins.; width of doorway, clear, 2 ft. 10ins.; distance of bogie centers, 34 ft. 6 ins.; wheel base ofbogies, 6 ft. i in.; gage of track, 4 ft. 8j4 ins.; seating capacity,60 passengers. The construction of tlie cars consists of a steel channel-section underframe, the sole-bars of which are filled with apitch pine timber the whole length of the car, for the receptionof the body frame. Two channels run the whole length of theunderframe, to which the floor members are securely bolted,the whole being braced diagonally and trussed both trans-versely and longitudinally. The floor boards are i-in. red deal,two layers in thickness, running in opposite directions. The roof is of the clere-story type, with swinging sashes,pivoted for ventilation. It is supported by channel and flatribs, and strengthened by a number of flat steel carlines, 2 y2 in., carried across the top and down the sides of each ca
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