. The Street railway journal . much neater solution than 24 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. i. the last mentioned. As is shown in Fig. 16, they made around end vestibule below and introduced a sliding sash, however, were straight. Curved glass is a nuis-ance to be avoided where it is possible. It is not only ex-pensive, but it must, in each case, be made to order, whichis a matter of time. This vestibule has a decided advantageover those used on steam roads, because the vestibule can,when necessary, be completely shut up from the weather. ous that an overhanging load always pou
. The Street railway journal . much neater solution than 24 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. i. the last mentioned. As is shown in Fig. 16, they made around end vestibule below and introduced a sliding sash, however, were straight. Curved glass is a nuis-ance to be avoided where it is possible. It is not only ex-pensive, but it must, in each case, be made to order, whichis a matter of time. This vestibule has a decided advantageover those used on steam roads, because the vestibule can,when necessary, be completely shut up from the weather. ous that an overhanging load always pounds most unmerci-fully at all but the slowest speeds. When the load is carriedat the rear the action is still worse. All such things must beconsidered before any such plan can be safely adopted. Theadvantages are so great, however, that the difficulties arewell worth study. In Fig. 19 we have another form of thesame idea, built by the Jewett Car Company for the Denison& Sherman Railway Company of Texas, and illustrates the.
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