. Electric railway journal . 45loyer Buffers —,—„ ^ v 1 .—s.—^ i -y l 21-3 Truck Centers >\j Des Moines Pront-and-Center-Door Car 582 ] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [ Body Arrangement. placed in service and the cost in general has beenlow. In Pittsburgh, for example, the expenditurefor splicing two 20-ft. car bodies so as to make a48-ft. car with a center well and an interior stepwas found to be $400. In addition a number ofopen cars, condemned on account of the practical ob-solescence of that type, have been made over intocenter-entrance cars having various combinationsof exterior and interior
. Electric railway journal . 45loyer Buffers —,—„ ^ v 1 .—s.—^ i -y l 21-3 Truck Centers >\j Des Moines Pront-and-Center-Door Car 582 ] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [ Body Arrangement. placed in service and the cost in general has beenlow. In Pittsburgh, for example, the expenditurefor splicing two 20-ft. car bodies so as to make a48-ft. car with a center well and an interior stepwas found to be $400. In addition a number ofopen cars, condemned on account of the practical ob-solescence of that type, have been made over intocenter-entrance cars having various combinationsof exterior and interior steps and wells to provideaccess to the car body. On the Pacific Coast, also,many California-type cars have been reconstructed,notably in Los Angeles, where center entranceswith ramps and outside steps were provided in thereconstruction of some 300 of the railway com-panys narrow-gage cars at a reported cost of $678per car. The ultimate value of such rebuilt cars is, ofcourse, problematical, in view of the change ofopinion that has taken place regarding the plaincenter-entrance design. However, the Boston ar-ticulated type of car, made up from two old carbodies with a special
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