. Electric railway journal . inst passen-gers who are occupyingthe folding platform all stanchions are en-ameled white, they areeasily kept clean. The seating capacity ofthe cars with longitudinal!seats on both sides of the-closed section is fifty, in-cluding folding platformseats, and fifty-two for those cars having cross seats on oneside of the closed section. EQUIPMENT, WEIGHTS, LIGHTING, ETC. The operating equipment per car consists of two BrilT27 GE-i trucks, four GE-216 form E motors and twoK-28-J controllers. The scale weight of a car ready forservice is 48,440 lb., or 931 lb.
. Electric railway journal . inst passen-gers who are occupyingthe folding platform all stanchions are en-ameled white, they areeasily kept clean. The seating capacity ofthe cars with longitudinal!seats on both sides of the-closed section is fifty, in-cluding folding platformseats, and fifty-two for those cars having cross seats on oneside of the closed section. EQUIPMENT, WEIGHTS, LIGHTING, ETC. The operating equipment per car consists of two BrilT27 GE-i trucks, four GE-216 form E motors and twoK-28-J controllers. The scale weight of a car ready forservice is 48,440 lb., or 931 lb. per seated passenger. Thecars receive ample illumination by means of twenty-four16-cp carbon lamps. August 9, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 227 CONCLUSION The management prepared the plans for these cars withthe most painstaking care, utilizing every inch of space sowell for the comfort of passengers that the new type isnow the most popular car operating in San complete car was designed by W. B. Farlow, chief. San Francisco Car—Looking from Closed Section TowardSemi-Open Compartment and Platform draftsman of the engineering department, under the super-vision of Charles N. Black, vice-president and generalmanager United Railroads of San Francisco. The carswere built at the American Car Company works of TheJ. G. Brill Company. SAFETY EXHIBIT CAR ON NEW YORK CENTRAL The New York Central Railroad Company has just com-pleted a safety exhibit car, which will be put into servicein connection with the work of the safety department ofthe company. The car is intended primarily for use as aninstruction car to inculcate the doctrine of safety first inthe minds of the 25,000 or more employees of the was equipped under the supervision of M. A. Dow, gen-eral safety agent for the entire system, who will havecharge of the various trips the car will make over all thecompanys lines. A car of this kind, of course, is of greater importanceto steam railroads than to ele
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