. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . umconvenience to the patrons, greatly im-proves the conditions required for promptand satisfactory service, and affords adesirable degree of privacy. The ground plan of tables, seats andpartitions are in outline like the steelsheet piling used at the ferry slips ofsome railroads. These are, in factI-beams with the top and bottom flangescurved downward and away from eachother; the curved flange of the pilerepresenting the partition, making the third illustration, the photograph for sire to sit
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . umconvenience to the patrons, greatly im-proves the conditions required for promptand satisfactory service, and affords adesirable degree of privacy. The ground plan of tables, seats andpartitions are in outline like the steelsheet piling used at the ferry slips ofsome railroads. These are, in factI-beams with the top and bottom flangescurved downward and away from eachother; the curved flange of the pilerepresenting the partition, making the third illustration, the photograph for sire to sit together the lowered glass which was taken over the top of thepartitions. These are too high for aseated passenger to look directly over theI)artitions, yet a general view throughthe car can be had. Referring again tothe sheet pile, as a sort of ai^iiroximatc partition makes both tables practically intoone, and the four passengers may con-verse with all the sociability to be foundat the round tables. If the pairs of pas-sengers do not know each other, theraised glass partition secures the desired. ERIE DINER WITH SQU.^RE \BLES. GL.\SS PARTITIOX C.\X BE LET DOWN. description of the table and scat plan, onemay say that the web of the pile repre-sents the centre partition between roundtables and on each side of this centralpartition, two square tables are placed. privacy for each table. Our second illus-tration shows this arrangement with theglass partition drawn up. The underframes of these dining carsare of the built-up type having center May. 1917. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 153 sills of the deep girder type, while theside and end frames are of pressed steel,riveted to the roof construction throughthe medium of continuous rolled steelcarlines. The exterior is covered with art glass stand on ornamental metalbases and produce a pleasing effect, whichbreaks the dead level of top of the tablepartitions by an elegant and highlydecorative arrangement.
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