Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-01-20
new PASSENGER COACHES
Five New Building Will Be Followed
by Palace Car.
Strength and Elegance are Combined in Con-
StruCtlOn- Nothing but Steel in Metallic
PaTtS-DlSpatCh.

Mention was made in the Bull
LETIN week or two ago of the
fact that the Oahu Railway g.
Land Company was about to build
five first-class passenger coaches.
1t was highly interesting news be-
cause no such rolling stock has
ever been built in these islands.
A reporter taking a walk
through the extensive works of the
company in the terminal yard had
the construction of the cars shown
and explained to him by j. A.
Hughes, foreman of the works.
The new cars were then all in
frame, with the promise of being
completed next month.
Although the length of the cars
is only Al feet, they are being con.
structed on the plan of Pullman
Is feet long. The sides are rein
forced with bridge truss work, aud
there are both longitudinal and
transverse steel trusses under
meath. The elements of construc-
ton give the coaches great
strength and rigidity. 1t would
take a tremendous concussion to
disrupt the boiy of cal framed
and trussed in this fashion.
The frame lumber is of the finest
grained northwest pine in the
m erket, selected SO as to eliminat
everything containing any sort of
flaw, which commands the very
highest price for lumber of that
species.
With the entire truck Of steel,
wheels and fastenings being of the
same material, there is car that
cannot be excelled in qualities of
wear and resistance to shock or
vibration by any article turned
out of the best carshops in the
world.
The interior will be elegantly
finished in redwood. There will
be an ornamental roof. As form
erly stated, the winds will be of
improved pattern compo. ed of two
sashes-the upper narrow and
fixed, the lower broad and sliding
up hieh-which will afford better
facilities for observation than the
old kind.
When these fine cars are com
pleted. Mr.. Hughes will at once
begin the construction of a veri-
table palace on wheels for the use
of General Manager Dillingham;.
1t will combine observation and
parlor characteristics. Say three
foutths of its length-judging by
a photograph model-will be par
lor with elegant furnishings. The
remaining fourth will be an open
space at one end, protected with
graceful steel ratings breast high.
Here portable chairs may be set
out, on which the local rail
way king and his guests
may take comfort while reveling
in the balmy breezes aud delight
full scenery along the line.
Once, when the company order
ed steel wheels for secondclass car
trucks from a firm back East
wanting them in hurry, too
the manufacturer delayed filling
the order until by correspondence
he could learn whether a mistake
had not been made in ordering
steel instead of castiron wheels
for cars of that description. Mr..
Dillingham; gave the doubling
to understand that
he knew what he was doing.
but steel will suit him
Tor the metallic parts of all pas
cars.
dispatch" is evidently the
of the o. r. & l..
Co.'s carshops. The day after
the recent collision the wrecked
engine was on the stocks getting
repaired. The yard is crowded
with new plantation cars, of
which one hundred will he de-