. Electric railway journal . other half ofthe car. This seating arrangement is seen in one ofthe illustrations. While arranged for double-end opera-tion, this car will probably be used on a loop to reducelay-over time consumed in changing the vestibules. Thecar seats thirty-seven passengers, nine finding room inthe rear vestibule and four on a bench in the front. The two-leaf entrance and exit doors are separatedby a panel and are controlled by separate a departing passenger leave the sliding bodydoor open, the operator can manipulate a door-closingpulley on a vertical rod behin
. Electric railway journal . other half ofthe car. This seating arrangement is seen in one ofthe illustrations. While arranged for double-end opera-tion, this car will probably be used on a loop to reducelay-over time consumed in changing the vestibules. Thecar seats thirty-seven passengers, nine finding room inthe rear vestibule and four on a bench in the front. The two-leaf entrance and exit doors are separatedby a panel and are controlled by separate a departing passenger leave the sliding bodydoor open, the operator can manipulate a door-closingpulley on a vertical rod behind so that he does not haveto leave his post. This door carries the curtain whichcuts off light from the car interior. Five-cent tickets and transfer fares will be collectedin accordance with the Ohmer system, which is standardat Portland. Fares are indicated and registered bysetting a horizontal dial directly behind the operatorand pulling a hand-hold which is placed on the othervertical rod shown in the illustration SEATING ARRANGEMENT AND VESTIBULE OF ONE-MAN CAR September 29, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 587 Life of Controller Cutout SwitchProlonged BY MAX PASSLER Armature Foreman Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad,Spokane, Wash. On type K-28 con-trollers on the Spo-kane & Inland Em-pire Railroad, Spo-kane, Wash., consid-erable trouble wasexperienced with thecutout switch locat-ed just above thecontact block. Themechanical strain oithe switch was re-lieved by insertingred fiber stop blockson both sides, asshown in the illus-tration. These werefastened to the baseby two countersunkscrews. The current-carrying capacity of the switcheswas increased by soldering second-hand copper pigtailsbetween the switch blade and the irfain lead, thus shunt-ing the hinge of the switch. These pigtail shunts canalso be seen in the illustration.
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