. Electric railway journal . d to cover the well. A stirrup step at each endof the car provides access to the motormans positionin the front of the car on the left-hand side, but onthe right-hand side a folding door and step is bracing under the center entrance consists of two6 in. x 6 in. angles carried back 13 ft. from the centerentrance on each side and attached to the old side are also two 4-in. channels attached to the bot-tom of the sills, and two 4-in. T-sections in the middleof the car. The channels and the T-sections are carriedback 7 ft. on each side from the
. Electric railway journal . d to cover the well. A stirrup step at each endof the car provides access to the motormans positionin the front of the car on the left-hand side, but onthe right-hand side a folding door and step is bracing under the center entrance consists of two6 in. x 6 in. angles carried back 13 ft. from the centerentrance on each side and attached to the old side are also two 4-in. channels attached to the bot-tom of the sills, and two 4-in. T-sections in the middleof the car. The channels and the T-sections are carriedback 7 ft. on each side from the center door. The center passageway is divided by an iron stan-chion, 2 in. in diameter on which the fare box ismounted. Two folding doors manually operated areprovided. The well in the center of the car is 5 ft. 4 longitudinally with the car and 6 ft. 8 transversely. This is nearly the same widthas the car. The steps are stationary, the clearanceconditions in New Haven permitting of this Section vl A BB THE CONNECTICUT COMPANYS DOUBLE-TRUCK CAS MADE BY SPLICING TWO SINGLE-TRUCK UNITS 1070 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLVIII, No. 21 ! The seating capacity of each of the old cars was the new unit seats 52. The weight of the bodywithout the trucks, trolley or other equipment is approximately 18,000 lb. The drawing shows the carmounted on 33-in. wheels, but it is now mounted onStandard 0-50 trucks with 30-in. wheels and four West-inghouse No. 512 motors. The heights of the twosteps from the street to the well are 15 in. and 14% The height of the riser from the well tothe floor of the car is 10 in. The cost of splicing thetwo old cars as described was about $1000. Motor Trucks with Steel-FlangedWheels The accompanying photographs show an applicationof a motor truck in salvaging rails on an abandonedlumber and tie road on the Burlington system. Thisran from Nahant, Mont., into the great forests ofthe Black Hills to th
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