. Electric railway journal . per-ated with pneumatic door and step control, and partsare in hand for ninety-three more. Cars of the 1425-1524 series, as illustrated, which have 7-ft. platformsinclosed with folding doors, are being converted at acost of about $175 each. While the existing cars fortrain service have simple light signals to indicate theclosing of the doors, the 100 new cars for train opera-tion will carry the National Pneumatic Companyssafety interlocking door control, which is interlockedwith the control system. Door and Step Arrangement All Montreal cars are of the two-step typ
. Electric railway journal . per-ated with pneumatic door and step control, and partsare in hand for ninety-three more. Cars of the 1425-1524 series, as illustrated, which have 7-ft. platformsinclosed with folding doors, are being converted at acost of about $175 each. While the existing cars fortrain service have simple light signals to indicate theclosing of the doors, the 100 new cars for train opera-tion will carry the National Pneumatic Companyssafety interlocking door control, which is interlockedwith the control system. Door and Step Arrangement All Montreal cars are of the two-step type, and ofthese steps the upper one is stationary and the lowerone folds. The vestibule doors are not swung againstthe bottom step, but against the edge of the platform,leaving the upper step partly exposed. The main reasonfor doing this was that carhouse contours would becleared even with the doors opened, whereas if thedoors were on the outside edge of the second step therewould be a danger of damaging door or step should a. MONTREAL DOOR EQUIPMENT—INTERIOR AND car inadvertently be pulled in with doors open. Again,on several types of cars, if the doors were to be out-side of the steps it would be necessary to build out atthe vestibule rail in order to get a door post. In practice, nobody tries to get on the exposed stepas it is narrow, and there are no outside , the window nearest the bulkhead is
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