. The Street railway journal . form a completely en-closed motormans cab on the left side with an entrancefor passengers through the front door next to the right- timber 5 ins. X 8 ins. and an inside timber ins. x 8 the side sill. This deep plate extends up in the sideof the car behind the side panels. For body end sillsX i2^-in. oak timbers plated inside and out with3/^-in. x 8-in. steel plates are used. The front and rear platform floors are \\y% ins. lowerthan the body floor, being ^oy% ins. high from top of rail. Feukuary 15, 1908.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 259 Because this drop a
. The Street railway journal . form a completely en-closed motormans cab on the left side with an entrancefor passengers through the front door next to the right- timber 5 ins. X 8 ins. and an inside timber ins. x 8 the side sill. This deep plate extends up in the sideof the car behind the side panels. For body end sillsX i2^-in. oak timbers plated inside and out with3/^-in. x 8-in. steel plates are used. The front and rear platform floors are \\y% ins. lowerthan the body floor, being ^oy% ins. high from top of rail. Feukuary 15, 1908.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 259 Because this drop and the extreme length of the rearplatfca: the method of framing adopted is rear platform side sills are 7-in., i^Y^-Vo. channelscarried back to the body bolster and bolted against theheavy sandwich plate in the body side sills. They are bentto give the required drop and at the bends are reinforcedwith 5-in. X ^-in. plates. The center sills are built upof two 5-in. X 3j4-in. X j4-in. angles arranged in the form. There are eight stationary transverse seats 34 ins. longon each side of the aisle which is 23 ins. wide. There arealso two longitudinal seats 63-)^ ins. long at the rear endand one longitudinal seat 35 ins. on the left hand side atthe forward end. The cars are equipped with St. LouisCar Companys vertical geared hand brakes on the frontplatform, Pantasote curtains with Forsythe fixtures andautomatic couplers. They are mounted on St. Louis CarCompanys No. 47 short wheel base trucks. SIMPLIFYING THE ORDERING OF PARTS IN BROOKLYN END ELICVATION, CLEVELAND CAR of a Z-bar and reinforced with a 5-in. x }i-in. plate. A3-in. X 5-in. oak filler is put in to square up the center sills are carried forward 3 ft. 10 ins. beyondthe bolster. Additional strength is provided by an auxiliaryknee of Yz-in. x 7-in. x ^-in. x 6-in. steel plates built inclosed wall of the vestibule on the left hand side. The The mechanical department of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran-sit
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