. The street railway review . FIG. 5—CALIFORNIA CAR I OR SEATTLE CITY RY. are common. Open cars are called for late in the autumn andearly in the spring when only a few of the passengers really carefor them. In some of our cities, notably New York, the boards ofhealth order that at least one car in every four shall be is readily complied with by using a combination or Californiacar in connection with the ordinary open cars. In the cold, chilly summer evenings common to the Atlanticstates a closed car is more comfortable for most people than anopen one. With the open types now in us
. The street railway review . FIG. 5—CALIFORNIA CAR I OR SEATTLE CITY RY. are common. Open cars are called for late in the autumn andearly in the spring when only a few of the passengers really carefor them. In some of our cities, notably New York, the boards ofhealth order that at least one car in every four shall be is readily complied with by using a combination or Californiacar in connection with the ordinary open cars. In the cold, chilly summer evenings common to the Atlanticstates a closed car is more comfortable for most people than anopen one. With the open types now in uses here there is no pro-tection for the passenger, who shivers, takes cold and makes hiscomplaints, without hope of relief. Many of our eastern carbuilders have announced that they saw little use for the Californiatype elsewhere than on the Pacific slope. Passengers, hwould welcome such a typo on the cold evenings and on those. CALIFORNIA IN 1 I RIRHAN WITH SIDES. raw days which make our climate a terror. It is true combinationcars do not answer very well even in New York for a winterservice, but they are all right during the season when open carsare used. Fig. 1, as has been said, is a view of the first California carever built. It had most of the modern features except the bulkhenis at the ends. These have been added in cars built morely. Fig. 2 shows a late pattern, also built by J. Hammond& Co. The car is much smaller and is mounted on four is for electric instead of cable propulsion. Each end of the caris fitted with a bulkhead and drop sash, and there are two stepsinstead of one. In other respects the car externally closely re-sembles its larger predecessor of the cable road. The closed , is fitted with cross seats instead of those runningtudinally. A projecting buffer and drawhead protects the are not at hand in regard to its length, but it is probabl
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