. Electric railway journal . E OPERATING FEATURES Although the car is mounted on a truck with wheelsof 33-in. diameter, the moderate step heights of 13 in.,11 in. and 10 in. from top of rail to bulkhead line havebeen obtained by building the floor with a ramp of 3 the 7-ft. 6-in. length between the bulkhead line and tively short, push-buttons have been set only in thepanels at the ends so that passengers will be out oftheir seats and near either exit before they signal fora stop. This feature will eliminate the loss of timewhich arises when a departing passenger must work hisway through
. Electric railway journal . E OPERATING FEATURES Although the car is mounted on a truck with wheelsof 33-in. diameter, the moderate step heights of 13 in.,11 in. and 10 in. from top of rail to bulkhead line havebeen obtained by building the floor with a ramp of 3 the 7-ft. 6-in. length between the bulkhead line and tively short, push-buttons have been set only in thepanels at the ends so that passengers will be out oftheir seats and near either exit before they signal fora stop. This feature will eliminate the loss of timewhich arises when a departing passenger must work hisway through a crowded car after he has signaled from Long Single-Truck Car—Steel Framing Layout of Union Railways First Car the center line of the journal boxes. The passenger-handling arrangements are of the standard pay-withintype with two pairs of hand-operated folding doors atthe conductors end and a single sliding exit door at themotormans end. As the conductor is not anxious tooperate the doors any more than he can help, he will. Long Single-Truck Car—Contactor Control Equipment andDisk of Emergency Valve in Pipe at Conductors Stand take advantage of his commanding position to encour-age the use of the front exit by calling Front way out,please, whenever he sees that passengers are readyto leave. The passenger will more readily comply withthis suggestion because he does not have to open a bodydoor to get to the platform. As the car is compara- his seat. A new feature of the stanchion at the con-ductors station is a disk and rod which can be madeto slide in a pipe slot overhead. The movement of thisdevice causes the current to be cut off and sets the airbrakes at emergency. The control equipment of themotorman embodies such safety features as the dead-
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