Long Island Steel Car

Long Island Steel Car—Side View placed in service by the end of the year. Fifty additional motorpassenger cars are now being built. The baggage and combina-tion cars also have been received and placed in service. The new steel cars differ from the older cars in many im-portant details of design and equipment. In the followingdescription frequent references to differences between the oldand new cars will be found. For a complete description of theold cars the reader is referred to the issues of the StreetRailway Journal for Aug. 11 and 18, 1906. As the old carsare 41 ft. long over body corner posts and the new cars are54 ft. 6*4 in. long, they will be referred to respectively as the41-ft. cars and the 54-ft. cars in making comparisons. The 54-ft. cars are the new Pennsylvania Railroad standarddesign for suburban passenger service with some slight modifi-cations in the vestibules and other details to permit the instal-lation of the necessary electrical equipment.


There are32 double seats and 4 single corner seats, giving a total seatingcapacity for 72 people. A toilet room containing a dry hopperis built in one end of most of the passenger and combinationcars. UNDER FRAMING The distinguishing feature of the underframing of the 54-ft.cars is the use of a heavy box girder center sill to which theload carried by the sides is transmitted by two cantileverswhich take the place of body bolsters. These cantilevers arebox girders with continuous top and bottom plates which passover and under the center sill. They are spaced 13 ft. 3 in.from the center of the car and the overhang beyond them tothe end sills is 13 ft. 10% in. The vertical load on the centersill, therefore, is very evenly distributed, as are also the loadscarried by the sides. The box girder center sill is built up oftwo 9-in. 15-lb. channels spaced 1634 in. apart, a top plate 54 in-