. Electric railway journal . Pittsburgh Car—View Showing Stationary End Seats andLocation of Control Handles—Motormans MirrorOver Right-Hand End Window account of the difficulty which they introduced in theinterior movement of passengers. The ends of the carare provided with circular seats, no bulkheads beinginstalled. There is also provided a single seat attachedto stanchions at each end of the car. The stanchionsare used primarily to support a folding seat for themotorman and to act as guides for a curtain at themotormans back to keep the lighted interior of the carfrom obscuring his view at
. Electric railway journal . Pittsburgh Car—View Showing Stationary End Seats andLocation of Control Handles—Motormans MirrorOver Right-Hand End Window account of the difficulty which they introduced in theinterior movement of passengers. The ends of the carare provided with circular seats, no bulkheads beinginstalled. There is also provided a single seat attachedto stanchions at each end of the car. The stanchionsare used primarily to support a folding seat for themotorman and to act as guides for a curtain at themotormans back to keep the lighted interior of the carfrom obscuring his view at night. Folding seats arelocated in front of the unused doors on the blind sideof the car. There is a ramp in the floor between the trucks andthe center. This gives a rise of 3 in. and, togetherwith a transverse ramp between the step and the longi-tudinal center line of the car amounting to 1 1/16 in.,it makes the minimum floor height 24% in. This isdivided into one l^A in. step from the ground and one. Pittsburgh Car—View Showing Interior Steps at Centerand Front Doors 9%-in. interior step. At the front exit the floor heightof approximately 2 ft. 5 in. is divided into three steps,of which two are interior and are about 8^ in. each. A notable innovation is the use of immovable semi-circular seats at both ends of the car. The controllerat each end is set below the seat and the shaft is ex-tended up through the seat and through a pipe rail-ing slightly above the ordinary height of an arm the car is being operated in either direction thecontroller and reverser handles are put in place on theshaft of the controller drum, the motorman standingin back of the fixed seat at the front end. The con-troller drum handle extends through the hollow re-verser shaft so that both handles have the same the pipe-railing also extends the shaft of amechanically-operated sander, and at the right of themotorman another piece of pipe railing affords a sup-port for the re
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