. The Street railway journal . when the train is in surfaceoperation, and rebounds from the span wireupon the roof. With the usual hood con-struction, a trolley pole is, in such a case, 258 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV. No. 8. liable to strike hard enough to break through a roof, but herethe special grate is provided to receive the blow of the trolleywheel in such a case. The other features of the end construction are evident fromthe drawing. For all new work the new type of side gate, builtby the Pitt Car Gate Company, New York, is being gate provides for the handling of
. The Street railway journal . when the train is in surfaceoperation, and rebounds from the span wireupon the roof. With the usual hood con-struction, a trolley pole is, in such a case, 258 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV. No. 8. liable to strike hard enough to break through a roof, but herethe special grate is provided to receive the blow of the trolleywheel in such a case. The other features of the end construction are evident fromthe drawing. For all new work the new type of side gate, builtby the Pitt Car Gate Company, New York, is being gate provides for the handling of large crowds upon theplatform with far greater ease, and without the inconvenienceof extreme crowding in closing, as met with the usual styles of platform gates. In opening,this gate is arranged to passendways and simultaneouslyswing around backwards, nextto the stanchions, thus entirelyavoiding interference withthose upon the platform. An-other feature is the provisionof the signs upon the end win-dows, forbidding passengers. DETAILS OF NEW LONGITUDINAL SEAT CONSTRUCTION, SHOW-ING NEW ARRANGEMENT OF HEATERS TO ELIMINATEDANGER TO CLOTHING OF PASSENGERS standing upon the front or rear platforms of trains; this is ap-plied upon the window glass by the sand-blast principle, in theform shown upon the left hand end window upon the details of the platform construction and the arrangementof apparatus beneath have been referred to in connection withthe new standard platforms; this drawing, however, shows theentire end arrangement in assembly. INSIDE DETAILS The standard inside end arrangement provides for a singlesliding door of the type generally used in elevated cars. Anovelty is here introduced, however, in the form of a new typeof combined latch and door handle, embodying a type of springlock which catches upon closing the door, but is easily unlockedwithout twisting or lifting or other complication, the mere actof pulling the handle to open the door unlatching the lock
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