. The Street railway journal . DOUBLH-TRUCK CLOSED CAR, BROOKLYN ers, draw-heads, platform gongs, etc., are all as describedfor the standard double-truck closed car. Two sand boxesare placed under the outside bulkhead benches. Thesecars are wired with two lighting circuits, includingstandard 9^-in. Neal headlights. At present the standard signs for all cars in the boroughof Brooklyn are as follows: For the side signs, the nameof the street or avenue is painted in full on ground glass,fitted in two or more removable sash, which fit into themonitor sash openings on the side of the monitor
. The Street railway journal . DOUBLH-TRUCK CLOSED CAR, BROOKLYN ers, draw-heads, platform gongs, etc., are all as describedfor the standard double-truck closed car. Two sand boxesare placed under the outside bulkhead benches. Thesecars are wired with two lighting circuits, includingstandard 9^-in. Neal headlights. At present the standard signs for all cars in the boroughof Brooklyn are as follows: For the side signs, the nameof the street or avenue is painted in full on ground glass,fitted in two or more removable sash, which fit into themonitor sash openings on the side of the monitor end signs are in the same way painted on removablesash fitting into the end monitor sash openings. The sidesigns indicate the route, and the end signs indicate in a. SINGLE-TRUCK CLOSED CAR, BROOKLYN general way the destination. These signs are illuminatedat night by the ceiling lights in the interior of the car. In addition, there is installed under each bonnet a four-sided wooden sign, 4 ins. x 4 ins. x 24 ins., on each of thefour faces of which is painted a different special destina-tion, according to the lines on whicli the car operates. Theconditions in l!rookl necessitate signs being either re-movable or having a great number of different route anddestination names. In summer on Sundays and holidays,on account of changed conditions of traffic, large numbersof cars nnisl be diverted from their regular routes to linesthat run to summer resorts, necessitating, of course, a com-plete change in signs. In Manhattan these conditions do 468 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. 14. not obtain, and a change of three or four signs is is amply provided for hy the four-sided box signs ingeneral use in the latter bomugh. The standard
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