. Electric railway journal . w York. George W. McNulty, Inc., had the contract for thereconstruction of this line and the work is now about99 per cent completed. LliJtsu 850 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLV, No. 18 New Cars for Kansas City The receivers of the Metropolitan Street Railway,Kansas City, Mo., have placed an order with the Ameri-can Car Company, St. Louis, Mo., for fifty single-end,double-truck motor cars. These cars will be built ac-cording to specifications and designs prepared underthe direction of William P. Woods and P. J. Kealy, rep-resenting respectively the c
. Electric railway journal . w York. George W. McNulty, Inc., had the contract for thereconstruction of this line and the work is now about99 per cent completed. LliJtsu 850 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLV, No. 18 New Cars for Kansas City The receivers of the Metropolitan Street Railway,Kansas City, Mo., have placed an order with the Ameri-can Car Company, St. Louis, Mo., for fifty single-end,double-truck motor cars. These cars will be built ac-cording to specifications and designs prepared underthe direction of William P. Woods and P. J. Kealy, rep-resenting respectively the city and the street railway The car has a seating capacity of forty-eight and itsestimated weight is 40,000 lb. The general arrangement of the car will embody alarge, roomy platform, wide aisle, wide seat cushions,safety treads set into the small ramps at the ends ofthe car body and stanchions in the forward end of thecar. The rear doors will fold out and the rear step willbe folding, all operated by one lever. The front exit. KANSAS CITY CAR—GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF SINGLE-END, DOUBLE-TRUCK MOTOR CAR r<-Eleetrie Rejourned door is to be of sliding type with step folding up. Nearthe exit doors the passengers on the end seats are tobe protected from drafts of cold air by a light-weightbulkhead of shoulder height. To obtain quick loading, the rear doors are to beopened by one lever, and the hand rail on the rear plat-form will be shortened to give a space of 21 in. in theclear between the post dividing the entrance and exitdoors and the hand rail. As the movement during rushhours is generally in one direction, the arrangement topermit the passengers to use both the rear doors at thesame time will make it possible to use the rear platformspace most effectively. There will be no grab handleson the exterior of the car, and as the steps are foldingthe car is practically hitch proof. The stanchions in the front end of the car are to be
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