. Electric railway journal . the usual pay-as-you-enter platforms owingto the use of step gates which control the exit and entrance. end cars, an unobtrusive locking device is provided to preventthe gates from being manipulated by passengers on the frontplat form. The cash box is placed inside a short curved pipe rail in theusual position along the path to the entrance door. With hi«left hand, the conductor can work the gate handles while his 274 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXV. No. 7. right hand can control the sliding exit door through a are registed through a pedal mechanis
. Electric railway journal . the usual pay-as-you-enter platforms owingto the use of step gates which control the exit and entrance. end cars, an unobtrusive locking device is provided to preventthe gates from being manipulated by passengers on the frontplat form. The cash box is placed inside a short curved pipe rail in theusual position along the path to the entrance door. With hi«left hand, the conductor can work the gate handles while his 274 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXV. No. 7. right hand can control the sliding exit door through a are registed through a pedal mechanism or a strap over-head. In the roof over the cash box there are placed five16-cp lamps. These afford so much light that at night the con-ductor is no more likely to be deceived by bad coins or oldtransfers than in the day time. motormans platformAs previously noted these cars are single-enders so that onlyan exit door has been provided for the front platform. Thestep exit is closed normally by a double-folding door which is. H--30- - st;3»«--ssSr-»! i* — 30- -„ Public Service Railway Cars—Plan of Platforms manipulated by the motorman through a lever above his hand-brake wheel. This platform contains quite an array of equip-ment. In the case of the car illustrated, the stove is placed inthe rear corner in an aluminum-painted case and the heatedair passes through a screen into the body of the car just abovethe heads of the passengers. The sand is placed in a metalbox alongside the stove and thus is kept warm and dry. Therest of the apparatus on this platform consists of the controllerand an engineers valve for the operation of the air motormans vestibule contains no lights except the lampused in the destination sign box. MISCELLANEOUS The electrical equipment of these cars consists of four West-inghouse 101-B2 motors. The power wiring of the motors islead through 2-in. pipes to opposite sides of the car and thencecarried under the car seats in %-. transite-li
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