. The street railway review . clusive dataarc at hand upon the effect of different shaped car ends on singleor two car operation. *«» The Washington (Pa.) & Cannonsburg Ry. was opened to trafficJuly 8th. The interior furnishing of the car is arranged in accordance withplans submitted by the Post Office Department, and comprises aletter case of 56 separate compartments, a drop rack for holdingmail pouches, a table covered with sheet iron for canceling mail,two wardrobes, wash basin and a combination water cooler andtank. There is also a drop table which is used for canceling parcels,etc. The ca
. The street railway review . clusive dataarc at hand upon the effect of different shaped car ends on singleor two car operation. *«» The Washington (Pa.) & Cannonsburg Ry. was opened to trafficJuly 8th. The interior furnishing of the car is arranged in accordance withplans submitted by the Post Office Department, and comprises aletter case of 56 separate compartments, a drop rack for holdingmail pouches, a table covered with sheet iron for canceling mail,two wardrobes, wash basin and a combination water cooler andtank. There is also a drop table which is used for canceling parcels,etc. The cars are mounted on Lord Baltimore single trucks, andare equipped with Westinghouse No. 49 motors and K-io average weight of the car complete is 18,691 lb. There are no side or hood signs on the cars, but each car isequipped with a sheet iron dash sign, giving the route to which itis assigned, with Through Service painted on one side, and LocalService on the other, the car displaying the Local Service sign. FLOOR OF llALTIMORK MAIL CAR. when collections are made from the street boxfs, and ThroughService when it operates between suburban stations, in whichservice it has the right of way over passenger cars. The cars arepainted white, striped in blue, all numbers and lettering being in street railway mail service of Baltimore has some novel feat-ures which were descril)ed at sonic length in the Review for.•\ugust, 1902, page 472. Not only do the postal cars collect anddeliver pouches in the various sections of the city, but at frequentintervals during the day the cars, each carrying from one to threeclerks, start out over different routes and make collections from the JlLV 20, 1903] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. rtgular street deposit boxes. As llic car approaches a collection boxa clerk jumps off with a mail pouch, empties the box of its mail aiUljumps back onto the car, oftentimes in less than 30 seconds. Inconjunction with this service, the regular ca
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