. The Street railway journal . fixed by arbitration as thevalue of the unexpired part of the franchises. September 30, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 633 CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR SHREVEPORT COMPANY The Shreveport Traction Company has lately received from theAmerican Car Company several of the convertible cars illustrated,built under the Brill patents. Shreveport is the second city ofcommercial importance in the State, and does a large business inlumber and cottonseed oil. The convertible type mentioned is inconsiderable use in the Gulf States, where the climate is semi-tropical. The sill step is a
. The Street railway journal . fixed by arbitration as thevalue of the unexpired part of the franchises. September 30, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 633 CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR SHREVEPORT COMPANY The Shreveport Traction Company has lately received from theAmerican Car Company several of the convertible cars illustrated,built under the Brill patents. Shreveport is the second city ofcommercial importance in the State, and does a large business inlumber and cottonseed oil. The convertible type mentioned is inconsiderable use in the Gulf States, where the climate is semi-tropical. The sill step is a modification of the Narragansett type, and iswider than appears in the illustration, giving ample room for asecure foothold. The cover plates for the openings over thesesteps when the panels are drawn down may be plainly seen in thepicture in their folded position. When the car is closed, theseplates are raised flush with the floor and present an even value of this extra step will be at once recognized when it is. CONVERTIBLE CAR FOR THE SHREVEPORT TRACTION COM-PANY, SHOWING TWO OF THE PANELS REMOVED noticed that double trucks having equal sized wheels are usedunder the cars. With such trucks the car floor is too high to beeasily and safely reached by a single step. The running board isthe same height from the track as the platform step, and from sillstep to car floor is same height as from platform to car heights are respectively 18 ins., 14J/2 ins. and 7^ ins. Inthe view of the exterior of the car two pairs of windows areshown raised at different heights, and a pair of sashes and panelsare raised entirely into the pockets in the side roofs. The opera-tion of raising and lowering the sashes is so simple that conver-
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