. The Street railway journal . backward alonsr the October 26, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 847 street. Illumination will be furnished by three rows of in-candescent lights in the ceiling, one row in the center andone on each side. For the greater convenience of thepublic an experiment will be made with a signal of coloredlights displayed on the front of the car, which will indicateits destination. The new cars will seat thirty-six people and it is pro-posed, if the city will cooperate in the effort to make thema success, to limit their carrying capacity to sixty-fivepeople. This will preven
. The Street railway journal . backward alonsr the October 26, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 847 street. Illumination will be furnished by three rows of in-candescent lights in the ceiling, one row in the center andone on each side. For the greater convenience of thepublic an experiment will be made with a signal of coloredlights displayed on the front of the car, which will indicateits destination. The new cars will seat thirty-six people and it is pro-posed, if the city will cooperate in the effort to make thema success, to limit their carrying capacity to sixty-fivepeople. This will prevent overcrowding during the rushhours, and during the non-rush hours it is intended to runenough cars so that there will be no crowding. If the citywill give the street railroad company the reasonable useof its tracks, along lines which have been suggested, thecompany will run enough cars to handle the people promptlyand rapidly. When a car has reached its capacity it willmake no stops until some of its passengers have INTERIOR, SHOWING THE LONGITUDINAL SEATING The principal dimensions of the new type of car are:Length over end panels, 32 ft.; length over crown pieces,47 ft.; width over sills, including sheathing, 7 ft. 4 ins.;width over posts at belt, 8 ft.; sweep of posts, 4^ ins.;center of posts, 2 ft. 9 9/32 ins.; height from floor to ceil-ing, 8 ft. y% in.; height from track to under side of sills,2 ft. jV2 ins.; height from under side of sills over roofboards, 8 ft. 9^2 ins.; height from track to platform step,1 ft. 454 ins.; size of side sills, 4 ins. x 6% ins.; size ofcenter sills, 3^ ins. x 434 ins.; size of end sills, 534 ins- x6}i ins.; size of inside sill plates, 153/2 ins. x Y% in.; thick-ness of corner posts, ms- • thickness of side posts, 234ins. The wheel base of the trucks is 4 ft. and the diameterof the wheels 31 ins. There will be 4 G. E. 80 motors toa car. The inside finish is in ash, with the ceiling in birds-eye maple. The cars were built by the
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