Canadian transportation & distribution management . Fig. i.—Latest Type of Car on Winnipeg Electric Railway. desired. The heating is from a hot airheater in the front vestibule, from whicha pipe passes under the seats on the leftside of the car, with outlets arranged atconvenient intervals. The interior lightingarrangement consists of 6 lights down thecentre of the car and 5 down each sideunder the deck. The length of car body is 33 ft., and it This rod bends downward at the secondpost from each end, connecting to a 1%in. rod through a pin connection, the rodcoming out through the end sills, j
Canadian transportation & distribution management . Fig. i.—Latest Type of Car on Winnipeg Electric Railway. desired. The heating is from a hot airheater in the front vestibule, from whicha pipe passes under the seats on the leftside of the car, with outlets arranged atconvenient intervals. The interior lightingarrangement consists of 6 lights down thecentre of the car and 5 down each sideunder the deck. The length of car body is 33 ft., and it This rod bends downward at the secondpost from each end, connecting to a 1%in. rod through a pin connection, the rodcoming out through the end sills, just infront of the step side as shown in fig. 1,where the end is accessible for tighteningup. The side construction of the car bodyis shown to advantage in fig. 5, where itwill be noted that the frame is thoroughly. Fig. 2.—Interior of Winnipeg Electric Ry. New Car. Fig. 3.—Unfinished Interior of New Car. hand rail, the entrance being next the oarbody and the exit at the rear of the vesti-bule. The interior arrangement is shown infig. 2. The seats are arranged lengthwiseof the car, permitting of easier internalmovement of the passengers and the rear, there is a central wide,double door entrance, whereas at the frontthere is only a single narrow door for theconvenience of the motorman, passengersnot having access to the front vestibule. is 45 ft. over bumpers, with an overallwidth of 8 ft. 4% ins., made possible by thewide devil strips used in Winnipeg. Thecar body frame is built up around twocentre sills of 8 in. I beams, filled out withwood fillers in the channel recess on eachside of the I beam, and on two 6 by 8 side sills. Under the centre of thecar, at 7 ft. centres, are two needle beams,—8 in. I beams—on the under side of which,below the sills, are queen pos
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