Text Appearing Before Image: ILWAY JOURNAL. PllllADELPHIA.ll.S.A. Cablegrams »Bpiii. Philadelphia Telegrams «Axles, londOD J. G. BRILL COMPANY 110 CANNON STREET London, E.C. England NOVES BROTHERS109 Pllt St., Sydney Agents for Australasia Setting a High Pace For years to come there will doubtless be many fine examples of how not to build large inter-urban cars. Concerns that have been in the ordinary street car business will try their hand at itwith full assurance that they know how, and two to one the outcome will be that the cars will beframed too heavy or too light, or the railway company will be told after the building has commencedthat certain things cant be made to fit into the plan. Some builders are rushing into heavy metalbottom framing—presumably to save that part in case of a wreck. The steam roads are losingconsiderable money by dragging around a lot of totally unnecessary weight, and history willprobably repeat itself in electric interurban railroading. Si x cars like the one shown in the illus- Text Appearing After Image: BRILL INTERURBAN CAR FOR THIRD=RAIL ROAD tration are fair examples of our interurban car building, and so are those of the Seattle & TacomaRailway, the Schenectady Railway, Chicago & Milwaukee, Rapid Railway of Detroit, Tamaqua &Lansford, Lake Shore Electric, Providence, Warren & Bristol, Ardmore & Llanerch, Camden Inter-State and many more. The Wilkesbarre & Hazelton cars are 43 feet over end panels, 51 feet overplatforms and 9^ feet wide over side sheathing. The side sills are 5%x8J8 inches, reinforcedfor the overhang at the baggage compartment end of car by 5^x8 inch plates; intermediate sills4/4*7YA inches. The center sills are double, with one-half inch plates sandwiched between; sizeover all 6x8^4 inches. The cars are mounted on Brill 27-E-2 trucks, which have no less than fourbraking appliances. The outside brakes are operated by automatic air and a vertical hand wheel;the inside brakes by magnetic power and a vertical hand wheel. The cars are arranged f
Note About Images
Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Volume
InfoField
1903
Flickr tags
InfoField
bookid:streetrailwayjo221903newy
bookyear:1884
bookdecade:1880
bookcentury:1800
booksubject:Street_railroads
booksubject:Electric_railroads
booksubject:Transportation
bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
bookleafnumber:1609
bookcollection:smithsonian
Flickr posted date
InfoField
27 July 2014
Licensing
This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.
Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
No known copyright restrictionsNo restrictionshttps://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/false