. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . light, and art glass is used in theinterior doors and in the clearstory win-dows. The seats are rattan chairs withcushioned backs and arms. A series ofelectric lamps in cup-like shades arcplaced above the row of chairs so thatreading is made easier and pleasantcrthan if the central clusters alone wererelied upon. The outside of the car is made of sheetsteel and the trucks are the six-wheeltype. The wheels are 37 ins. in diameterand the spread of the wheels is 5 ft. 3ins., making a truck wheel
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . light, and art glass is used in theinterior doors and in the clearstory win-dows. The seats are rattan chairs withcushioned backs and arms. A series ofelectric lamps in cup-like shades arcplaced above the row of chairs so thatreading is made easier and pleasantcrthan if the central clusters alone wererelied upon. The outside of the car is made of sheetsteel and the trucks are the six-wheeltype. The wheels are 37 ins. in diameterand the spread of the wheels is 5 ft. 3ins., making a truck wheel base of 10 ins. The body bolster of the car is 8 of the end. The heavy centre sillis of I-beam built-up section slopingdown from a point about 11 ft. 4 ins. backof the end sill and reaching a of 2 ft. 6H ins. The body bolster. also of built-up section, is lls^ ins. deepat the center. Heavy triangular needlebeams are used, running fr- -• -•f- for operating the axle light is boxed in,so that the belt drive and the electric - - ■ - tf-ctcl from dust, etc. .M-. INTERIUR OF PARLOR CAR THE SPOK.\XE, PORTLAND & sills to the outside of the longitudinal together the cars present a neat, comfort-sills. They are placed at intervals along able and serviceable appearance and havethe main center sills. The mechanism given every satisfaction on the S. P. & S. Efficient and Economical Railway Car Lighting The matter of railway car lighting wasthe subject of a paper recently read byMr. Geo. Hulse. chief engineer of theSafety Car Heating and Lighting Com-pany. He said, among other things, theproper lighting of railways cars has al-ways brought out special problems, bothas to the methods of producing the energyfor lighting, and in the application of thelight sources to get proper illumination. As methods of lighting have been im-proved, new methods have been applied tocars with such modifications as the spe-cial conditions make necessary. Oil
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