. Electric railway review . -minute service is maintained throughout the day; in theevening cars are run to the resort every two and a half minutes. The cars are convertible on the one side only, as they areto be run only in one direction. Last year the Cleveland Electric from the end panels over the vestibule (front end) 4 feet and atrear end 5 feet; width over the sills including plates 7 feet 11%inches; width over posts at belt 8 feet 2?4 inches; height fromfloor to ceiling 8 feet 61,4 inches, and from track over trolleyboard 12 feet- sweep of posts 1% inches; distance between centersof pos
. Electric railway review . -minute service is maintained throughout the day; in theevening cars are run to the resort every two and a half minutes. The cars are convertible on the one side only, as they areto be run only in one direction. Last year the Cleveland Electric from the end panels over the vestibule (front end) 4 feet and atrear end 5 feet; width over the sills including plates 7 feet 11%inches; width over posts at belt 8 feet 2?4 inches; height fromfloor to ceiling 8 feet 61,4 inches, and from track over trolleyboard 12 feet- sweep of posts 1% inches; distance between centersof posts 2 feet 9 inches; side sills are 4%x7% inches on the closedside and 2M!x7% inches on the convertible side; end sills 4%x7%inches; sill plates on the closed side 8x% inches; on the convertibleside 8x6x% inclies. Length of seats on convertible side 36 inches;movable seats measure 53 inches. The type of truck is the Brill27-G; weight of car body is about 21,000 pounds; car and truckswithout motors weighs about 33,000 New Type of Convertible Car for Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway. Railway Company adopted a similar type of car built by theKuhlman company. The cars for the two roads mentioned embodya seating arrangement which is a combination of longitudinal andtransverse seats. The left side of the car, or the side oppositethat which has the ,sliding sashes and panels, has the standardtype of built-in panels and dropped window sashes; against thisside are placed longitudinal seats in sections, accommodating threepassengers each. The distance between the ends of the transverseseats and the cushions of the longitudinal seats is 33 inches; inother words, there is a gain of about 15 inches over the aisle widthof a car with transverse seats on both sides. When the convertibleside is opened, the longitudinal seats are swung into line with thetransverse seats and securely connected thereto, forming con-tinuous seats across the car and accommodating five passengerseach. The seati
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