. The Street railway journal . ipped and solidly constructed interurban electricrailway in existence to-day. The fast acceleration needed for the local service making by the Niks Car & Manufacturing Company, and arenotalile for strength of sub-frame, drawings of which areshown. These cars are 47 j ft. over bumpers and 39 ft. 4 bodies. This length was selected to allow the cars topass around the sharp curves of the Union loop in Chicagoas it was the original intention to run these cars into Chi-cago over the tracks of the Metropolitan West Side Ele-vated Railway. The cars seat fifty-si
. The Street railway journal . ipped and solidly constructed interurban electricrailway in existence to-day. The fast acceleration needed for the local service making by the Niks Car & Manufacturing Company, and arenotalile for strength of sub-frame, drawings of which areshown. These cars are 47 j ft. over bumpers and 39 ft. 4 bodies. This length was selected to allow the cars topass around the sharp curves of the Union loop in Chicagoas it was the original intention to run these cars into Chi-cago over the tracks of the Metropolitan West Side Ele-vated Railway. The cars seat fifty-six people in seats dis-posed according to the seating plan shown. There is 110waste room either on platforms or inside the car, hence therelatively high seating capacity as compared with otherinterurban cars of similar iength. The heating is by Con-solidated electric heaters placed along the side of the exterior view of one of these cars is shown in the articleelsewhere in this issue on Cars for High-Speed Interurban. all stops as well as the long rims at high speed practicallythrew out of consideration everything but the multiple-unitsystem. The equipment of the motor cars is four 125-hpG. motors. The General Electric Companys type Mtrain-control system with small master controller on eachplatform operating magnetic contact makers or contact-ors under each motor car was adopted. One and two-cartrains will have every axle motor driven. Three-car trainswill have one car without motors. The motor cars have themost powerful equipment ever put on a motor car, excepton elevated roads, where the motor car acts as a locomotiveto pull trailers. The type-M control permits the train orcar to be operated from any car, and is practically thesame as that put on the Manhattan Elevated in NewYork, and was described, together with the G. here tised, in the ( )ctober (torn) Street RailwayJournal. The cars upon which, these motors are placed were built Service. An interior
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