. Electric railway journal . o such advantage that the cost for converting each carwas much less than it would have been otherwise. The original platforms had no vestibule doors, but werefurnished with a pantograph gate on the inner side of the plat-form. The principal fittings on the rebuilt platforms comprisea vertical dividing rail for entrance and exit at the rear,mechanisms for the door and step combinations and a curvedplatform rail which separates the incoming and outgoing pas-sengers besides affording the usual space for the curved rail alone is expected to separate the
. Electric railway journal . o such advantage that the cost for converting each carwas much less than it would have been otherwise. The original platforms had no vestibule doors, but werefurnished with a pantograph gate on the inner side of the plat-form. The principal fittings on the rebuilt platforms comprisea vertical dividing rail for entrance and exit at the rear,mechanisms for the door and step combinations and a curvedplatform rail which separates the incoming and outgoing pas-sengers besides affording the usual space for the curved rail alone is expected to separate the exit andentrance streams as the old 32-in. opening double sliding doorsat each end of the 28-ft. body have been retained. It will beunderstood that this door arrangement has not only made itpossible to leave the longitudinal seating unchanged, but,furthermore, the total seating capacity has been increased by a McWhirter, the companys superintendent of equipment, hastwo features which are very important from the standpoint of. Plan and Side View of Door and Step Mechanism accident prevention. The sliding exit door is closed by themotorman who depresses a heavy pedal which is otherwise atan angle of about 45 deg. to the platform. When the door is closed, the pedal is locked in a catch on the platform floor
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