Features of Cor-Ten alloy steel motor cars built by Pullman-Standard in Chicago for Metropolitan Transit Authority of Boston; new cars are 69 ft 6 in. over anti-climbers, 9 ft 6 in. wide and weigh 70,000 lb; each car has 4 doors on each side; cars are designed to be semipermanently coupled in 2-car sets consisting of one "A" and one "B" car, with full transverse cabs at only outer ends of each 2-car set; tractive effort for each car is furnished by 4 100-hp motors. (see also Ry Locomotives and Cars v 137 n 3 Mar 1963 p 38-9, 42)
New cars cut costs for Boston transit
Ry Age
Railway Age ; 154 , n 8
1963
2 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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