. The Street railway journal . The use of the side aisle prevents the employment ofmuch concavity in the lower panel, giving a somewhatsquare and box-like appearance to the cars. In service,however, they are giving very satisfactory results, andthe management is very enthusiastic upon this style ofcar. Each car is equipped with two Meaker registers, onefor recording the cash fares and the other the tickets re-ceived. They are painted different colors and one ismarked in large letters 5 cents for five cent fares andthe other 3 cents for three cent fares. Both are oper-ated by the same rod, it b
. The Street railway journal . The use of the side aisle prevents the employment ofmuch concavity in the lower panel, giving a somewhatsquare and box-like appearance to the cars. In service,however, they are giving very satisfactory results, andthe management is very enthusiastic upon this style ofcar. Each car is equipped with two Meaker registers, onefor recording the cash fares and the other the tickets re-ceived. They are painted different colors and one ismarked in large letters 5 cents for five cent fares andthe other 3 cents for three cent fares. Both are oper-ated by the same rod, it being turned in one direction forringing one kind of fare, and in the other direction forthe other. The equipment of each car also includes Con-solidated electric heaters, De Witt sand boxesand Crawford fenders. The company is using the wheels of a number. FIG. 10.—VIEWS ON THE LINE OF THE DETROIT RAILWAY. sprinklers, two Brill sweepers and two plows. The carsare all mounted on Brill trucks, and are equipped withWestinghouse No. 12 A motors. The sweepers areequipped with Westinghouse No. 50 motors. The car bodies were built by the St. Louis Car Com-pany, and are of the well-known Kuhlman type, which isused generally on the roads in which the syndicate con-trolling the Detroit Railway is interested. The charac-teristic of these cars, as will be seen from Figs. 15 and 16,consists in the fact that they have cross seats, with sideaisle and three doors all of which are on the sameside of the car. This permits quick dischargeand ingressof passengers. By removing the windows the cars can beoperated as open cars in summer, so that the same rollingstock is available for summer and winter service. Thelength over all is thirty-one feet, and that of the car bodytwenty-two feet, giving four and a half foot the back of each seat is a
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