. Electric railway journal . entlemen toadvice and suggestions received from the transportationand other company departments. The arrangement of this car for either one or two-man operation makes it readily adaptable for use onany line of the system, hauling either heavy or lighttraffic or for operation on the same line as a one-mancar in non-rush and as a two-man car in rush the time of this writing, two lines are being oper-ated with the new cars as one-man cars all day, usingthe two-man three-truck trains, described in theElectric Railway Journal for Jan. 15, 1921, page 131,for the
. Electric railway journal . entlemen toadvice and suggestions received from the transportationand other company departments. The arrangement of this car for either one or two-man operation makes it readily adaptable for use onany line of the system, hauling either heavy or lighttraffic or for operation on the same line as a one-mancar in non-rush and as a two-man car in rush the time of this writing, two lines are being oper-ated with the new cars as one-man cars all day, usingthe two-man three-truck trains, described in theElectric Railway Journal for Jan. 15, 1921, page 131,for the additional rush-hour equipment required, asthis keeps the line entirely on the basis of one manper car. To speed up loading at congested points, auxiliarystreet collectors are used, these cars being equipped witha shaft extending out from the steps and connected tothe door-operating mechanism by beveled gears, so thatthese collectors are enabled by using a crank, to openthe rear right-hand door and admit passengers. By this. Z ?-/ 2-5 >** Z-5% ►**••••■ Z-5W~*> I* 2-5% *•*-■ Z-5 fyU Flcor Plan Showing Layout op Seats and Platform Equipment and Various Dimensions Z 934 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 58, No. 22 means, it has been possible to maintain practically thesame schedule speed as that prevailing when the lineswere operated with all two-man cars. The arrangement of the separate entrance and exitdoors makes possible a rate of loading and unloadingequal to that of the older two-man cars on the system,and these doors are arranged for independent opera-tion, so that the operator can close the exit when allpassengers have alighted and confine the ingress of pas-sengers to the entrance door. This independent opera-tion of doors is similar to that provided for the rear
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