. The street railway review . aken a decided stand and that is that if first-classequipment is good for passenger cars, it is doubly so fur ils mis- red plush cushions, red plush curtains, lined with cream colored silk;red portieres, fancy bronze electroliers, Pullman car tables, Wiltoncarpet in middle section, and linoleum in open sections. The caris mounted on McGuire 39-A trucks and equipped with four G. E. 58motors, National Electric air brakes, and lever hand brakes. Thegear ratio is 22:62 and a speed of 30 miles per hour is readily at-tained. This car is chartered to private parties, but
. The street railway review . aken a decided stand and that is that if first-classequipment is good for passenger cars, it is doubly so fur ils mis- red plush cushions, red plush curtains, lined with cream colored silk;red portieres, fancy bronze electroliers, Pullman car tables, Wiltoncarpet in middle section, and linoleum in open sections. The caris mounted on McGuire 39-A trucks and equipped with four G. E. 58motors, National Electric air brakes, and lever hand brakes. Thegear ratio is 22:62 and a speed of 30 miles per hour is readily at-tained. This car is chartered to private parties, but only on pre-sentation of the best of references. It is also used by the officers ofthe company, on state occasions. It is considered quite the properthing to charter this car for theater parties, serving a supper inthe car after the theater. The Hermosa parlor car was built by the St. Louis Car Co. andis an older car than the San Francisco, but has recently beenoverhauled and renovated so that it is virtually as good as CAR FOR HAULING STREET SWEEPINGS—UNITED RAILROADS OF SAN FRANCISCO. cellaneous equipment. The inspection and care of miscellaneousequipment must be as good or better than for passenger cars. The miscellaneous equipment of the company consists of twokinds, viz.: Revenue and Non-Revenue cars. The Revenue carsare those, outside of passenger cars, from which a direct revenueis derived. Among these are 2 parlor cars, 2 observation cars, 3funeral cars, i electric mail car, 2 cable mail cars, and 2 streetsweepings cars. The parlor cars are the San Francisco and the San Francisco is a closed car 38 ft. over bumpers, and is di-vided into three compartments. The middle compartment is 19 , and might be termed the parlor. The end compartments con-tain a buflfet, ice chest, coat hooks, motormans cab, etc., and arealso used for smoking rooms. The outside of the car is painted aBrewster green, with gold striping and lettering. The interior isfinishe
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