. The Street railway journal . END VIEW OF STANDARD BOSTON CLOSED CAR over crown pieces, and has a width over sills and panels of 7 ins., and over posts at belt rail of 7 ft. 10 ins. The side sillsare 4% ins. x 7% ins., and are plated inside with -Ms-in. x COMBINATION MAIL AND PASSENGER CAR USED IN BOSTON steel, turned at the end sills and bolted to end sills are 4% ms- x 6% ins., and the centerand intermediate posts 3*2 ins. x 5% ms- Thecrown pieces are 234 ins. x 18 ins. The platformsare 5 ft. long, and are provided with a dash ex-tending around one side. The four platfo
. The Street railway journal . END VIEW OF STANDARD BOSTON CLOSED CAR over crown pieces, and has a width over sills and panels of 7 ins., and over posts at belt rail of 7 ft. 10 ins. The side sillsare 4% ins. x 7% ins., and are plated inside with -Ms-in. x COMBINATION MAIL AND PASSENGER CAR USED IN BOSTON steel, turned at the end sills and bolted to end sills are 4% ms- x 6% ins., and the centerand intermediate posts 3*2 ins. x 5% ms- Thecrown pieces are 234 ins. x 18 ins. The platformsare 5 ft. long, and are provided with a dash ex-tending around one side. The four platform tim-bers are 8 ins. deep, and the outside timbers arereinforced with angle-iron. A somewhat novelfeature has been introduced in the platforms byfastening on the top of the regular platform floor-ing wooden strips 2 ins. wide, with y2 in. space be-tween them. These strips are similar to thoseused in the inside of the car but are run cross-ways instead of longitudinally. The object is todrain the water from the platforms, and they cer-tainly make a very dry and clean looking cars, which weigh 21,760 lbs. without pas-sengers and motors, are mounted on maximumtraction trucks and are fitted with portable vesti-bules. The end door is set slightly to
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