. Electric railway journal . Models of Prepayment Platforms as Arranged for Double-Deck Cars with Drop Platforms trique Central, a new suburban line between Paris and theforest of St. Germain, will operate fifty cars on the pre-payment principle. At present, it is experimenting with acenter-entrance car which handles two classes of passen-gers. The growth of the prepayment idea abroad is alsoindicated by the fact that negotiations are now under wayfor installations in Moscow, Russia, and Shanghai, fact, prepayment designs are being considered by morethan thirty foreign electric railwa
. Electric railway journal . Models of Prepayment Platforms as Arranged for Double-Deck Cars with Drop Platforms trique Central, a new suburban line between Paris and theforest of St. Germain, will operate fifty cars on the pre-payment principle. At present, it is experimenting with acenter-entrance car which handles two classes of passen-gers. The growth of the prepayment idea abroad is alsoindicated by the fact that negotiations are now under wayfor installations in Moscow, Russia, and Shanghai, fact, prepayment designs are being considered by morethan thirty foreign electric railways. 386 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 9. NEW CARS FOR MILWAUKEE The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company hasrecently received and put in operation thirty semi-steel carsof the pay-as-you-enter type built for double-end general, the interior arrangement conforms to that in thecars which the company is now engaged in rebuilding. Inthe main construction details and general appearance, how-. Milwaukee Car—Side View, Showing General Design ever, the new equipment is a considerable departure fromthe earlier cars. The general dimensions of the new car are as follows:Length of car over corner posts, 33 ft. 8 in.; length of carover bumpers, 47 ft.; width of car over belt rail, 8 ft. 5 in.;height, top of roof to floor, 8 ft. l1/^ in.; height of floorabove rail, 41 5/16 in.; truck centers, 22 ft. 8 in.; distancecenter to center of posts, 29^ in.; diameter of wheel, 34in.; seating capacity, 52; total weight, 49,000 lb., includingweight of electrical equipment, 13,100 lb.; weight of carbody per passenger, 942 lb. BODY CONSTRUCTION One side of each vestibule is supplied with double fold-ing doors which open out, leaving a clear entrance 3 in. in width. The opposite side is provided with a singlefolding door which also opens out and leaves a 2-ft. The narrow opening forms the exit at the motor-mans end of the car and the wide opening the entra
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