. The street railway review . gers Park and Evanston sellinga total of $2,553 EAVE TROUGHS FOR STREET CARS. A number of open cars owned by the Hartford vConn.) StreetRailway Co. have been fitted with eave troughs to prevent rainwater from the roof, from dripping on the passengers or on theends of the seats. The troughs are of wood and run the lengthof the car on each side, just beneath the edge of the roof. Theaccumulated water finds its way to the street through l-in. pipes atthe corner posts. 536 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. X, No. 9. SPLICED CARS AT ROCHESTER. N. Y. The Rochester (N. Y.) Ra
. The street railway review . gers Park and Evanston sellinga total of $2,553 EAVE TROUGHS FOR STREET CARS. A number of open cars owned by the Hartford vConn.) StreetRailway Co. have been fitted with eave troughs to prevent rainwater from the roof, from dripping on the passengers or on theends of the seats. The troughs are of wood and run the lengthof the car on each side, just beneath the edge of the roof. Theaccumulated water finds its way to the street through l-in. pipes atthe corner posts. 536 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. X, No. 9. SPLICED CARS AT ROCHESTER. N. Y. The Rochester (N. Y.) Railway Co, has recently enlarged someof its vestlbulcd cars and mounted them on double instead of sin-gle trucks. The cars were cut in two and three new side postsinserted, thus increasing the length of the body over the cornerposts from 18 ft. 8-^^ in. to 27 ft. gl4 in. Body bolsters were placed•3 ft- 7^i in- between centers and two truss rods added on eachside. One of these extends under the side sills between the bolsters. l-IG. 1 INTKKIOK OK C.\R. with a single strut in the center; the other is a yi .x 2-in. bar ex-tending to the ends of the body. Cross tie-rods, -5-^ in. in diameter,arc placed at each cross sill and three longitudinal tie rods runfrom the bolsters to the next outside cross sills. The greatest difficulty in altering the car was to so locate the sidesills that there would be space between to allow for the swingof the double trucks in taking curves, and thus avoid raising thecar body so high as to require two steps. The arrangement adopted was to bolt a block, marked A inFig. 5 to the foot of each post and then mortise the block into theside sill; the blocks were properly grooved to fit the outside sur-faces of the posts. The details of the block and the spacing of the posts and sills in both the old and rebuilt cars are clearlyshown in Fig. 5. It will be observed that the side sills of the re-built car are 514 x 7}i in. instead of 3*4 x 4%, as in the old on
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