. The Street railway journal . CROSS SECTION AT END SILL AND BOLSTER and the one which is expected to do so much to reduceplatform accidents and delays, is the method of simultane-ously closing the doors and raising the car steps, or con-trariwise, opening the doors and lowering the steps. Thelatter, of course, are double because the vestibule is flushwith the rest of the car floor. The actuating mechanism for a pair of doors on eachside consists of an air motor supplied from the regular air-. OF UNDERFRAMING, SHOV/ING EXTENSION OF CENTER SILLS TO THE END OF THE CAR ■ travel in Troy
. The Street railway journal . CROSS SECTION AT END SILL AND BOLSTER and the one which is expected to do so much to reduceplatform accidents and delays, is the method of simultane-ously closing the doors and raising the car steps, or con-trariwise, opening the doors and lowering the steps. Thelatter, of course, are double because the vestibule is flushwith the rest of the car floor. The actuating mechanism for a pair of doors on eachside consists of an air motor supplied from the regular air-. OF UNDERFRAMING, SHOV/ING EXTENSION OF CENTER SILLS TO THE END OF THE CAR ■ travel in Troy. One can readily understand why capacity is a necessity on these routes in view ofthe fact that only one of the Troy collar and cuff companieshas fully 4500 girls who leave the works in the eveningat the same time. The general arrangement of what would ordinarily becalled the platforms is well shown in one of the plans andalso in one of the interior views. The motormans cabextends the full width of the vestibule and has a maximum brake reservoir, and a system of levers connecting with thedoors and steps. The device is controlled pneumaticallyby the motorman through two handles in the cab, onehandle caring for the front end and the other for the rearend of the car. The motorman, of course, while control-ling the front door does not close the rear door until hereceives the starting bells from the conductor, nor does heopen the doors before the car has stopped. The doo
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