. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of the spaces in the walls of thecar. The thresholds are flush with thefloor. The controlling mechanism is lo-cated at the ends of the car and is op-erated by the trainman. The bench-form seats are of an en-tirely new design, each section seatingeight passengers. They are construct-ed throughout of mahogany, withstraight backs 42 ins. high. No uphol-stering is used. The seat bottoms ofsolid mahogany are of modeled are a total of 100 seats in eachcar. The side door car of the Illino
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of the spaces in the walls of thecar. The thresholds are flush with thefloor. The controlling mechanism is lo-cated at the ends of the car and is op-erated by the trainman. The bench-form seats are of an en-tirely new design, each section seatingeight passengers. They are construct-ed throughout of mahogany, withstraight backs 42 ins. high. No uphol-stering is used. The seat bottoms ofsolid mahogany are of modeled are a total of 100 seats in eachcar. The side door car of the Illinois Cen-tral is quite unlike that used on Eng-lish railroads, not alone in the detailsbut in the principles of its design. Inthe first place the swinging door is dis-carded, and the danger to which pas-sengers on the station platforms and inthe car are exposed by doors openingunexpectiWly when trains are in motion,is eliminated. Instead of the swingingcompartment doors, each one of whichhas to be opened and closed separately,sliding side doors are used which areoperated and controlled by ingenious. ■f3g;;7»«?wrj
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