The Street railway journal (1907) (14573511037)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo301907newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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EXTERIOR DOUBLE TRUCK CAR FOR MACON cars throughout have specialties made by this builder, in-cluding radial draw-bars, ratchet brake handles, etc. Someof the dimensions of the larger cars follow: Length overend panels, 28 ft.; over crown pieces, 37 ft. 5 ins.; width
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INTERIOR MACON CAR over sills, including panels, 7 ft. ioj ins.; height from floorto window sill, 23 ins.; size of side sills, 4 ins. x ins.;end sills, 54 ins. x 6?--s ins. The trucks are the No. 27-G1with 4-ft. 6-in. wheel base. The smaller cars are 20 ft. 8 ins.in length with correspondingly similar dimensions and aremounted on the Xo. 21-E single truck. 400 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXX. No. ri. NOTES ON THE PORTLAND (ORE.) SYSTEM As now organized the combined lines of the PortlandRailway, Light & Power Company, of Portland, Ore.,namely, the Portland Railway Company and the OregonWater Power & Railway Company, make Portland the radi-ating point for a widely divergent system of railwayswhich is playing a prominent part in the building of agreater Portland. There are seven trains daily betweenPortland and the suburban communities of Gresham, An-derson, Boring, Barton, Eagle Creek, Currinsville, Estacadaand Cazadero, and between Portland and Oregon Citythere is a 35-minute