. Railway mechanical engineer . a sketch on the floorplan of the car. The cots are finished in white supply room contains a fireless cooker, drinking watertank, wash basin and supjily locker. The annunciator on apartment car into one having a 15-ft. apartment. In caseit is desired to return to the original arrangement it can bedone at slight expense. These changes have been made pos-sible by making the location of the doors and windows com-mon to either size car. The Post Office Department points out in connection with 638 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 91, No. 11 tliese plans tha
. Railway mechanical engineer . a sketch on the floorplan of the car. The cots are finished in white supply room contains a fireless cooker, drinking watertank, wash basin and supjily locker. The annunciator on apartment car into one having a 15-ft. apartment. In caseit is desired to return to the original arrangement it can bedone at slight expense. These changes have been made pos-sible by making the location of the doors and windows com-mon to either size car. The Post Office Department points out in connection with 638 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 91, No. 11 tliese plans that the work of transforming from one length compartment by framing the side doorways at one end for to another may be greatly facilitated l)y making the interior the companys standard baggage door-opening and filling in equipment more nearly portable than is customary at present, with false work to reduce the door openings to 2 ft. 10 in., Screws and bolts may be used for securing fixtures which are the standard for postal ja—Jl,-24^4^zS-%-zl!%-Bs^-2l>i-Es^-!6-ii,.-Zll>i4- jos- Plans for Converting the 60-ft. Mail Car to the 30-ft. Compartment Car now permanently attached to the car body. It is also sug- Complete plans for the mail apartment are gested that roads building 60-ft. postal cars which may at shown on Railway Mail Service drawing sheet M, while the some future time be changed to 30-ft. apartment cars may plans for the 60-ft. mail car convertible to a 30-ft. apartment make it easy to change one end of the cars into a baggage are shown on sheet N.
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