Text Appearing Before Image: als or their equivalents hasalways been insisted upon by steam railroad men as verynecessary to the durability of a car bottom. The car, without trucks, weighs about 24,000 lbs., and October 4, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 549 the total weight, including trucks and motors, is, approxi-mately, 40,000 lbs. This, it will be seen, for the seating ca-pacity is a very light coach, and the plan will justify study. The Niles Car & Manufacturing Company built the high-speed interurban car shown in Fig. 29 and Fig. 30 for theAurora, Elgin & Chicago road. A floor plan of this car ispublished, in connection with the article, elsewhere in this M. C. I!, trucks with steel-tired wheels, and is ecptippedwith four 75-hp Westinghouse motors. Each car is alsoprovided with Westinghouse double-end air-brakes and anair whistle. The subject of open cars for interurban railways hasnot been discussed to any extent in this article, but for com-pleteness, a view of an open car which has given excellent Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 31.—CAR FOR COLUMBUS, DELAWARE & MARION RAILWAY issue, on the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railway. It has aflattened vestibule, with a steam hood, and from the formof the clear-story windows we judge that the interior mustbe of the Empire style of finish. The windows are oval-headed, of the Pullman type and protected by guard-rails.The body is carried rather lower than usual, so that onlytwo risers are necessary to reach the platform from theground. Two trolley poles are used. The shape of thevestibules is novel, and is intended to reduce the air re-sistance. These cars weigh light, including motors and allequipments, 73,000 lbs. Fig. 31 illustrates a very handsome coach recently corn- satisfaction on the Northern Texas Traction Company ispresented herewith. This car was also built by the Kuhl-man Company. On high-speed roads the ordinary type ofcar with running-boards has certain objections, and thiscar, as will be seen, has a center aisle with end entrances.It is designed
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