. Electric railway journal . specially heavy traffic. The limiting features in designing the coaches were:(1) The high standard of comfort to which suburbanpassengers in Buenos Aires are accustomed; (2) theprovision of vestibule con-nection between coaches; (3) the existence of lowplatforms necessitatingsteps up into the coaches; (4) the provision of adriving compartment ateach end of every coach; (5) the use of vacuumbrakes. As required by theclimate the coaches arelarge and airy, the extrawide gage of the trackpermitting considerablelattitude in design. Theheight from floor to centerline of
. Electric railway journal . specially heavy traffic. The limiting features in designing the coaches were:(1) The high standard of comfort to which suburbanpassengers in Buenos Aires are accustomed; (2) theprovision of vestibule con-nection between coaches; (3) the existence of lowplatforms necessitatingsteps up into the coaches; (4) the provision of adriving compartment ateach end of every coach; (5) the use of vacuumbrakes. As required by theclimate the coaches arelarge and airy, the extrawide gage of the trackpermitting considerablelattitude in design. Theheight from floor to centerline of the semi-elliptical ceilings of the saloons is8 ft. 71 in. and the width between side posts is 9ft. 7 in. Eight 6-in. ventilators are fitted in theroof and in addition four 38-in. fans are installed inthe first-class coaches. The lower side sashes slide upward and all windowsare provided with upper and lower louvred shutters tokeep out sunlight. The shutters are covered with finemesh copper-wire gauze to keep out INTERIOR OF TEN-TRACK CARHOUSE AT VICTORIA level is 4 ft. 2 in., requiring by government regulationthree intermediate steps. There is a door at each endof the coach and also one in the middle, the latter beingdouble and 5 ft. wide. As the doors have to be set backfrom the side line of the coach to provide room for thethree steps, it was not possible to arrange the sills be-neath the body side from end sill to end sill, or even be-tween bolsters. In the case of the motor coaches, there-fore, the main longitudinals were spaced 7 ft. consist of built-up fish-bellied steel girders, 2 in. deep in the center, with holes cut out of the webfor lightness and to facilitate access to the electricalequipment. These main longitudinals run from end sillto end sill and support the angle-bar side sills, whichare interrupted to clear the footsteps by means of pressed steel main members of thetrailer underframes aretwo 12-in. channels spaced3 ft
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