. The Street railway journal . FIG. 16.—END OF CAR, GUARD READYTO OPEN DOOR WITH AIR VALVE FIG. 17.—DOOR OPEN, A QUICK-LOADING CAR FIG. IS. CONVERTIBLE COACH CAB ARRANGEDFOR PASSENGERS 738 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. i6. coils and surrounded with a water-jacket. Some of these havebeen located near one end of the car and others are shown inFig. 20. The results as regards keeping cars warm and com-fortable have been very satisfactory, the large amount of hotwater in the pipes offering a large heat storage and radiatingcapacity for use in quickly bringing up the temperature afterdoors
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 16.—END OF CAR, GUARD READYTO OPEN DOOR WITH AIR VALVE FIG. 17.—DOOR OPEN, A QUICK-LOADING CAR FIG. IS. CONVERTIBLE COACH CAB ARRANGEDFOR PASSENGERS 738 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. i6. coils and surrounded with a water-jacket. Some of these havebeen located near one end of the car and others are shown inFig. 20. The results as regards keeping cars warm and com-fortable have been very satisfactory, the large amount of hotwater in the pipes offering a large heat storage and radiatingcapacity for use in quickly bringing up the temperature afterdoors have been opened at stations. These heaters have allbeen installed under guarantees to maintain the cars at a com-fortable temperature with loo lbs. of hard coal per day. A regular routine has been established for the care and main-tenance of these heaters on the sixty-eight cars so equipped. SNOW STATISTICS FROM BOSTON. FIG. COACH CM! MOTORMAN ARRANGED FOR Conductors and guards have nothing whatever to do with thecare of the heaters. When the cars are in operation they aretaken care of by a man who is kept on duty constantly at theplatform of the outer terminal station. His duty is simply tokeep the fires going and give the heaters what little attentionthey may need between trips. The main work of taking outashes, putting in coal, building fires and the like is done by theyard men, two on duty in the day time and four at night. Thefires are kept up constantly, as, of course, it would not do to letthe temperature get down to freezing point during the night,and it would furthermore be difficult to get the cars to a com-fortable temperature for the first trip in the morning, on whichof all trips they should be thoroughly warm. So comfortablewere the cars kept in extremely cold weather that it was theopinion of the management that had all the cars of the companybeen equipped with these he
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