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)


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    Title :

    New cars cut costs for Boston transit


    Additional title:

    Ry Age


    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 154 , n 8


    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    New cars cut costs for Boston transit

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