. The Street railway journal . FIG. u. FIG. v. SOME TYPES OF CHICAGO ELECTRIC CARS FIG. 13 box similar to that in the small grip car. A car of this sort,of course, requires a loop at the end of the road. The Chicago City Railway Companys closed trailcar is shown in Fig. 6. These have 21-ft. bodies and areslightly more than 6 ft. wide. They have the usual Chi-cago guard surrounding the w heels and the Brill equaliz-ing running gear. All of the cars just described were madeby the J. G. Brill Company. The latest purchases of cars by the Chicago surface com-panies are shown in Figs, to, 11 and 18.
. The Street railway journal . FIG. u. FIG. v. SOME TYPES OF CHICAGO ELECTRIC CARS FIG. 13 box similar to that in the small grip car. A car of this sort,of course, requires a loop at the end of the road. The Chicago City Railway Companys closed trailcar is shown in Fig. 6. These have 21-ft. bodies and areslightly more than 6 ft. wide. They have the usual Chi-cago guard surrounding the w heels and the Brill equaliz-ing running gear. All of the cars just described were madeby the J. G. Brill Company. The latest purchases of cars by the Chicago surface com-panies are shown in Figs, to, 11 and 18. Fig. 1 1 representsan electric motor car, of which too were made for the Chi-cago City Railway Company by the John Stephenson Com-pany, while sixty more of a similar pattern are being builtby the St. Louis Car Companv. These cars are 20 ft. longover corner posts and 30 ft. over all, and arc 6 ft. 2 ins. wide rubber pockets to prevent all rattling whatever. The in-terior finish is in cherry, stained dark, with hand carvedwindow and do
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