. Electric railway journal . LIGHT-WEIGHT SEMI-STEEL CAR BUILT IN OMAHA SHOPS 510 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 12 The upper steel sashes of all side windows are station-ary, while the lower sashes lift into roof pockets. Heavywire grills are placed outside the windows and eachwindow is provided with a Pantasote curtain. Theheadlining is of Agasote and the car interior is finishedin cherry. The floor is of f-in. yellow pine with maplestrips for the aisle matting. Double out-folding entrance and exit doors and fold-ing steps, manually operated according to the AmericanCar Companys desig
. Electric railway journal . LIGHT-WEIGHT SEMI-STEEL CAR BUILT IN OMAHA SHOPS 510 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 12 The upper steel sashes of all side windows are station-ary, while the lower sashes lift into roof pockets. Heavywire grills are placed outside the windows and eachwindow is provided with a Pantasote curtain. Theheadlining is of Agasote and the car interior is finishedin cherry. The floor is of f-in. yellow pine with maplestrips for the aisle matting. Double out-folding entrance and exit doors and fold-ing steps, manually operated according to the AmericanCar Companys design, are provided at the rear, and a. INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT OP OMAHA HOME-BUILT CAR single folding exit door and step at the front are thus door openings of 5 ft. at the rear and2 ft. 4 in. at the front. The conductors station is on the rear platform, andfares are collected and recorded from entering pas-sengers by means of the International fare box andregister. The arrangement of the rear platform rail-ings is shown in the drawing. The bulkhead arrange-ment at each end provides successive steps from top ofrail to car floor of 14 in., 13 in. and 10 i in., with a2-in. ramp from the end of the body sill to the end of thebolster. The seats are rattan, with a single pressed-steelpedestal at the aisle end of each cross-seat, the oppositeend being fastened to the wall with brackets. In ad-dition to the cross-seats there is a 7-ft. longitudinalseat on each side of the rear end, nine 34-in. trans-verse seats on the left side and one 17-in. transverseand eight 34-in. seats on the right side. A is provided bet
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