. The street railway review . two intermediate posts. At the lower ends the iron bandsai e turned and bolted so as to hold the bar about the level ofthe backs of the seats. When the side of the car is to beopened the bar is raised up just beneath the roof and heldin place by an iron pin inserted in a hole in each endpost. A novel form of guard is in service on the open cars ofthe Troy City Railway Company. A net (Fig. 11) 60 and the length of the car is stretched along the innerside of the car and held in place by hooks at the top and bot-tom which fasten into eyes on the end and cente
. The street railway review . two intermediate posts. At the lower ends the iron bandsai e turned and bolted so as to hold the bar about the level ofthe backs of the seats. When the side of the car is to beopened the bar is raised up just beneath the roof and heldin place by an iron pin inserted in a hole in each endpost. A novel form of guard is in service on the open cars ofthe Troy City Railway Company. A net (Fig. 11) 60 and the length of the car is stretched along the innerside of the car and held in place by hooks at the top and bot-tom which fasten into eyes on the end and center form of guard is easily handled for the conductor ga-thers it into his arms as he unfastens the hooks and carriesit to the other side of the car, unfolding it as he puts thehooks in the eyes. The Laclede Car Company, of St. Louis, has two types ofsliding guard rails which it places on open cars when so or-dered. The rail is made of wood, about 1x3 in., and ex-. FIG. 13. tends from corner post to corner post, one on each side ofcar, and slides up and down between the posts and grabhandles. It is held in place under the water table, whennot in use, by automatic springs. To accomplish this it isnecessary to make the grab handles extra long and placethe upper bracket above the water table, as shown in Fig. rail is secured to the grab handles by loose bracketswhich slide on the tubes of the handles, one of these brack-ets being placed on each corner post and two on interme-diate side posts. When not in use the guard rail is held inplace under the water table by automatic springs, two oneach side of the car. ^1JiM,S\gulvv^%%^ 433 .Another guard rail used is made of i-in. bronze tubing,secured to the posts with suitable brackets, and made in twosections so as to be drawn out from the ends, and providedwith pins to prevent tube from coming out. This style ofguard rail is shown in Fig. 13 with the tube partly drawn outon one end. Brackets are
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