. The Street railway journal . ~—i — street FIG. 10.—DETAILS OF MOTOR TRUCK the windows are of special pressedsteel, flanged out at their lowerends to fit over the belt rail whichruns along the entire length of thecar body outside of the posts (seeFig. 6). The top ends of the postcovers extend under the letter-board, which is a steel plate 7 1-16ins. wide, running the entire lengthof the car, riveted to the side letterboard in turn is over-lapped by the eaves molding as de-scribed above. In this manner theentire outside covering of the caris waterproofed by simply overlap-. st
. The Street railway journal . ~—i — street FIG. 10.—DETAILS OF MOTOR TRUCK the windows are of special pressedsteel, flanged out at their lowerends to fit over the belt rail whichruns along the entire length of thecar body outside of the posts (seeFig. 6). The top ends of the postcovers extend under the letter-board, which is a steel plate 7 1-16ins. wide, running the entire lengthof the car, riveted to the side letterboard in turn is over-lapped by the eaves molding as de-scribed above. In this manner theentire outside covering of the caris waterproofed by simply overlap-. street FIG. 11.—SECTION OF WHEELS AND AXLE ON MOTOR TRUCK as to form a pocket to contain the auxiliary control switch-board panel, which will be described next week. All motor cars are equipped with pilots suspended from theplatform buffers, and the vestibules are fitted with panta-graph safety gates and guard chains to prevent trainmen andpassengers from falling between the cars. The usual grabhandles are also fitted to the sides and ends of the air whistle is also provided over each vestibule, with itsoperating valve situated conveniently to the control paddles are carried in the vestibules of all cars, ping its component parts, avoiding all cracks into which thewater can run by gravity. All joints between the side sheath-ing plates are covered with sheet-metal battens, laid on withthick red lead and secured by rivets. FINISH The flooring of the car body is of corrugated sheet iron, and is supported by the longitudinal sills and the steel-
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