. Electric railway journal . Truck centers 24 ft. VVheelbase 4 ft. 6 in. Floor to rail 38 in. Width over side plates, 8 ft. 2 in. Width over belt rail, 8 ft. 4 % in. Height inside 7 ft. 9 in. Height of exit doors. 7 ft. 3 in. of Rebuilt Cleveland CarsHeight of entrance doors. .6 height front vestibule, 15 in., 14 in., 9 height center exit, 13% in., 12J4 in.,12% seated in sum-mer 54 Passengers seated in winter. 53 Passengers standing 78 Total passenger load 132 Wheel diameter 33 in. were later rebuilt into the closed type shown in an ac-companying illustration. Bot
. Electric railway journal . Truck centers 24 ft. VVheelbase 4 ft. 6 in. Floor to rail 38 in. Width over side plates, 8 ft. 2 in. Width over belt rail, 8 ft. 4 % in. Height inside 7 ft. 9 in. Height of exit doors. 7 ft. 3 in. of Rebuilt Cleveland CarsHeight of entrance doors. .6 height front vestibule, 15 in., 14 in., 9 height center exit, 13% in., 12J4 in.,12% seated in sum-mer 54 Passengers seated in winter. 53 Passengers standing 78 Total passenger load 132 Wheel diameter 33 in. were later rebuilt into the closed type shown in an ac-companying illustration. Both types of cars had woodenoutside sheathing below the belt rail, and the twenty-five cars built in 1898 were framed for a concave sidesheathing. The over-all length of the original cars ofboth types was 52 ft., but in rebuilding this was re-duced to 49 ft. 3% in. through the elimination of therear vestibule. The other principal dimensions are asgiven in the above table. Essentially, the remodeling of these double-end car. CLEVELAND REBUILT CAR—VIEW OF REMODELED CAR COMPLETED February 19, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 345 bodies included a change in the location and size of theentrance doors in the front vestibule, the provision forthe center exits, the reconstruction of the rear vestibuleto make them form part of the main car body and a re-arrangement of the seating plan in the front half of thecar. The door in the front vestibule was originally 2ft. 2 in. wide, and it was installed beside the vestibulecorner post. The changes in this entrance included anincrease in the width of the opening to 4 ft. and its shiftfrom the front vestibule corner post to a position besidethe body corner post. No changes were made in theplatform arrangement or dimensions, but at the line ofthe bulkhead between the front vestibule and the maincar body, pipe rails and stanchions were provided toform a 36-in. aisle. In place of the cross-seats in the front half of thebody, two longitudinal seats we
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