. Report of the Electric Railway Test Commission to the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition . ompany. Some of the general dimensions and data are thefollowing:— Length over corner posts .... 33 feet 4| inches. Length over bumpers 44 feet 8 inches. Length of front vestibule .... 3 feet 8 inches. Length of rear platform 9 feet. Length (center to center of king bolts) 19 feet 10 inches. Height of car floor from rails ... 3 feet 2| inches. Height of car roof from rails ... 12 feet 3 inches. Width over all 9 feet. Weight of car body 15,000 pounds. Weight of two trucks 13,000 pounds. Weig
. Report of the Electric Railway Test Commission to the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition . ompany. Some of the general dimensions and data are thefollowing:— Length over corner posts .... 33 feet 4| inches. Length over bumpers 44 feet 8 inches. Length of front vestibule .... 3 feet 8 inches. Length of rear platform 9 feet. Length (center to center of king bolts) 19 feet 10 inches. Height of car floor from rails ... 3 feet 2| inches. Height of car roof from rails ... 12 feet 3 inches. Width over all 9 feet. Weight of car body 15,000 pounds. Weight of two trucks 13,000 pounds. Weight of four motors 7,324 pounds. Weight of general equipment . . 4,676 pounds. Weight of car complete 40,000 pounds. Wheel base of trucks 4 feet 6 inches. Diameter of wheels 33 inches. Number of motors 4 Horse-power rating of each ... 25 Seating capacity 48 Capacity (crowded) 120 The Car cars were built specially for the St. Louis TransitCompany. As seen from Fig. 10, the car body has the channelsteel side sills peculiar to the St. Louis Car Companys 48 ELECTRIC RAILWAY TEST COMMISSION. SERVICE TESTS OF ELECTRIC CARS 49 patented construction which allow the windows to be loweredbetween the channels, thus permitting of a lower window sillconstruction than usual. The front platform is very short, as it is intended to be occupiedby the motorman only, although used as an entrance and car body is unusually wide, being nine feet over all, whichis the widest car body in use in any of the large cities of thecountry. Fig. 11 shows views of the rear platform and of the interior-The rear platform is seven feet long and represents the extreme
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