. Electric railway journal . WAUKEGAN mounted on that companys standard safety-car truck,the present design having been used also on the twenty-five safety cars recently shipped to the BirminghamRailway, Light & Power Company. These trucks have a9-ft. wheelbase. Other details of their construction areshown in the accompanying elevation drawing. Thecar body is mounted on the outer ends of the semi-elliptic springs, without the use of any intermediarycoil springs, as has been customary in other safety-cartrucks. The opposite or inside ends of the ellipticsprings are connected with the side frame
. Electric railway journal . WAUKEGAN mounted on that companys standard safety-car truck,the present design having been used also on the twenty-five safety cars recently shipped to the BirminghamRailway, Light & Power Company. These trucks have a9-ft. wheelbase. Other details of their construction areshown in the accompanying elevation drawing. Thecar body is mounted on the outer ends of the semi-elliptic springs, without the use of any intermediarycoil springs, as has been customary in other safety-cartrucks. The opposite or inside ends of the ellipticsprings are connected with the side frame of the truckthrough a swinging link, and the side-frame membersrest on a pair of pedestal springs at either journal substitution of the coil springs at the pedestalsfor the more usual coil springs at the outer ends of theelliptic spring was made for the reason that it isthereby possible to use a longer spring. The wheels used on the North Shore cars are steel. The motors are the 264-A type with. HEAD LINING. SIDE SHEATHING AND DOUBLE FLOORING WERE USED IN THE WAUKEGAN SAFETY CARS friction bearings. The truck journals are also of thefriction-bearing type. All bearings in the brake rig-ging are steel bushed and all pins are case brakeshoe and brake rigging wear is taken up byGould slack adjusters. The car body differs from the standard safety-cardesign in several respects. It is standard so far and general construction go and as to theseating arrangement and the seating capacity of thirty-two. The underframe has been strengthened to con-form to the requirements outlined by H. A. Johnson,superintendent of equipment of the Chicago ElevatedRailways and Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Rail-road. Then inside the car, to provide for the coldweather which prevails on the shore of Lake Michiganat Waukegan, agasote sheathing and head lining wasput in from the floor to the window sill or armrest and again behind the advertising racks an
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