. The Street railway journal . VIEW OF THE TROY CAR WITH THE DOOR OPEN AND THESTEPS DOWN. THE GRAB HANDLES ARE INSIDETHE CLOSED DOOR platform accidents and improve the headway by requiringless time for loading and unloading. These objects appear to have been admirably fulfilled byadopting a car practically without platforms and whichcannot be boarded after the doors are closed by the motor-man. The cab arrangement as well as the door and stepfeatures are similar to those of the Boston car, describedin the Street Railway Journal of Aug. 25, 1906, but theelimination of the usual overhanging plat
. The Street railway journal . VIEW OF THE TROY CAR WITH THE DOOR OPEN AND THESTEPS DOWN. THE GRAB HANDLES ARE INSIDETHE CLOSED DOOR platform accidents and improve the headway by requiringless time for loading and unloading. These objects appear to have been admirably fulfilled byadopting a car practically without platforms and whichcannot be boarded after the doors are closed by the motor-man. The cab arrangement as well as the door and stepfeatures are similar to those of the Boston car, describedin the Street Railway Journal of Aug. 25, 1906, but theelimination of the usual overhanging platform is due toimportant changes in the underframing. INTERIOR VIEW LOOKING TOWARD OPENED , SHOWING DOORLESS ENTRANCE TOSEATING COMPARTMENT ture, having but one floor level and containing two doorsat each end with a cab for the motorman. Another featureof the underframe construction is the greater resistanceof¥ered in collisions, owing to the way the body bolster isattached to the floor framing. In case a collisio
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