Identifier: electricrailway481916newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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oard the cartwo at a time with no holdup and under the eye of the motormanwho controls the entrance by his control of the folding doors andstep. In less than half the usual time all are aboard and whilethe loading is swiftly progressing in front unloading is going onat the center exits. One hundred and fifty-six of these cars are in operation inCleveland. Sixty are being built for Toledo, fifty for Rochester,twenty-five for Syracuse, ten for Utica and ten for Schenectady. PETER JVITT, 630 Leader Buildings Cleveland ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (September 30, 1916 Louis Car Company Light-weight Units have cometo stay. We have designs forsingle end and for double endoperation. We have built light-weight cars with various methodsof door operation. Weight ofSt. Louis Light-weight Unitsrange from 10,000 lbs., to 14,000lbs., complete. A sample of ourBantam car and truck can beinspected at the Convention. Dont fail to see it. St. Louis Car Company September 30, 1916) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 241
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Steel Cars First for Safety and Traffic Promotion Three hundred and fifty thousand pounds (350,000 lbs.) is theapproximate weight of this three-car train when carrying its fullload of 180 seated passengers. Sixty miles an hour (60 m.p.h.) is the rate of speed at whichthis train is propelled over most of the 63-mile run. Between Los Angelesand San Bernardino This is the latest and best-equipped line of the Pacific ElectricRailway. It was built not only to bring San Bernardino intocloser touch with Los Angeles, but to attract high-class touristtravel. The twenty-five (25) steel cars which we have furnished forthis magnificent line have now been in operation almost a year,giving that safety and comfort that spell BETTER BUSINESSand a Pleased Public. Write our nearest office about your needs in non-burning, non-telescoping cars. Pressed Steel Car Company New York Pittsburgh Chicago Washington, D. C. 242 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (September 30, 1916

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