. Electric railway journal . artment at the opposite end of thecar from the baggage room, not having any bulkhead, isprovided with a motormans cab built in one corner. Anarrow emergency door through the side of the car isavailable for the motorman. Entrance to the motormanscab from the body of the car also may be had by meansof a creep door in the interior partition of the cab. Whenthis end of the car is running forward the 2-ft. 6-in. swing-ing door for passenger entrance is closed and a removableseat accommodating four persons is let down over thesteps, thus materially increasing the seating
. Electric railway journal . artment at the opposite end of thecar from the baggage room, not having any bulkhead, isprovided with a motormans cab built in one corner. Anarrow emergency door through the side of the car isavailable for the motorman. Entrance to the motormanscab from the body of the car also may be had by meansof a creep door in the interior partition of the cab. Whenthis end of the car is running forward the 2-ft. 6-in. swing-ing door for passenger entrance is closed and a removableseat accommodating four persons is let down over thesteps, thus materially increasing the seating capacity ofthe car by accommodating passengers in the space ordinar-ily used as a vestibule. Mechanically and electrically the new cars will be up todate in every way. The body will be carried on two BrillNo. 27 E-i trucks with 4^-in. axles. The wheel base ofthe trucks is 6 ft. and the distance between truck centers26 ft. Each car will have four 40-hp motors controlledby type M equipment and provided with couplers for train. Feclric Ey. Journal Joliet & Southern—Plan of Ground Floor of TerminalBuilding in Joliet operation; rolled steel wheels 33 in. in diameter with and i-in. flange will be used. Tomlinson couplerswill serve for connecting cars for train operation. The* air-brake equipment will be supplied by the National Brake& Electric Company, and will be designed for train con-trol with the latest automatic features. Among the spe-cialties chosen for these cars are Ohio Brass sanders, Cooper hot water heating system, Forsyth No. 88 curtainfixtures, continuous parcel racks, pressed steel bumpers,locomotive type pilots and Pantasote curtains. FINANCIAL It is of considerable interest to note that the FisherConstruction Company, which has built the Joliet & South-ern lines, has raised local money to the amount of $5,000per mile by selling bonds of small denominations to the
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