. The Street railway journal . loor built on top Fig. 6 shows plans with dimensions of the two cars now beingconstructed, which it is expected will be placed in operationsoon. Fig. 5 is the plan of a somewhat longer car, containing akitchen in addition to the sleeping compartments. It is ex-pected to build this car as soon as the first two cars have beengiven a trial. The cars are mounted on M. C. B. trucks, and will beequipped with four 150-hp Westinghouse motors for each is an enormously heavy equipment, and the company in-tends to provide for the most severe requirements at the sta
. The Street railway journal . loor built on top Fig. 6 shows plans with dimensions of the two cars now beingconstructed, which it is expected will be placed in operationsoon. Fig. 5 is the plan of a somewhat longer car, containing akitchen in addition to the sleeping compartments. It is ex-pected to build this car as soon as the first two cars have beengiven a trial. The cars are mounted on M. C. B. trucks, and will beequipped with four 150-hp Westinghouse motors for each is an enormously heavy equipment, and the company in-tends to provide for the most severe requirements at the advisable, the motors can be omitted from one pair of trucks. Among the small comforts provided will be electrically-heatedcurling irons in the ladies toilet and electric cigar lighterin the smoking room, and electric fans in the main compartmentof the car. It is expected to charge $2 per night for berth and $3 for Just where the first two cars will be put into August 15, 1903. J STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 241. service is somewhat doubtful. It was expected at first that theywould be operated between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis,Ind., over the tracks of the Columbus, London & Springfield,Dayton & Western, Richmond Street & Interurban, and theIndianapolis & Eastern Railways. Owing to the limited capa-city of a subway on this route, however, which will not allowthe passage of a full-sized interurban car until the subway is changed, some otherroute may have thehonor of operatingthe first sleeping seems to be-little doubt but thatsome of the lines ofthe Appleyard syndi-cate of Ohio can makeuse of these cars assoon as they areready. The Holland PalaceCar Company expectsto conduct the sleep-ing car business onvery much the samelines as the PullmanCompany conducts iton steam to the numberof different lines thatmust be operated overin the majority ofcases where it is de-sirable to have asleeping car route, a company independent of any one r
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