. The Street railway journal . would provide a tunnel for the Broadway cars fromThirty-Second Street to Thirty-Fifth Street. The ColumbusCircle improvement is the proposed rearrangement of thetracks and the building of eight transfer platforms, whichwould also provide isles of safety between the sidewalk andthe outside of the circle. — The Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Company hasmade a contract for what probably is the largest shipment offreight ever handled by an electric railway in Indiana. Theshipment is to consist of forty car loads of seeds and plants tobe transported from Lebanon
. The Street railway journal . would provide a tunnel for the Broadway cars fromThirty-Second Street to Thirty-Fifth Street. The ColumbusCircle improvement is the proposed rearrangement of thetracks and the building of eight transfer platforms, whichwould also provide isles of safety between the sidewalk andthe outside of the circle. — The Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Company hasmade a contract for what probably is the largest shipment offreight ever handled by an electric railway in Indiana. Theshipment is to consist of forty car loads of seeds and plants tobe transported from Lebanon, Boone County, to Cumberland,Marion County. It is said that the shipment will exceed8000 tons. 910 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV. No. ax. CONVERTING SUMMER TO WINTER CARS IN CLEVELAND The Cleveland Electric Railway Company, of Cleveland, re-cently spent some time experimenting with schemes for con-verting its summer cars into cars that would be available foreither summer or winter use. The experimental cars proved. as a closed car. Each of the shorter seats was fitted with anarm rest, which takes the place of the coupling used when thelonger sections of the benches are put back into their originalplace for summer use. The arrangement of the interior of thecar for winter use is shown in Fig. 2. The left side of the carbefore being altered is shown in Fig. 3, while the left side ofthe car after alteration, and with windows in place, is shownin Fig. 4. It will be seen that the guard rail is removed, the protectingscreen is cut in two and a single built up panel is inserted. Thispanel contains the sill for the window, and one side of each FIG. 1.—OPEN CAR STRIPPED AND READY FOR CHANGES
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