. Electric railway journal . y. Woodendoors are used in these cars, because they are lighter andcheaper than steel doors and because the possibility of usingthe cars in subway service is rather remote at vestibule folding and sliding doors are solid cherry. As earlier stated, the car bodies are arranged for col-lecting fares according to the system of the Pay-as-You-Enter Car Corporation. The arrangement of platform rail-ings is the same as that described for the wooden cars of theChicago Railways Company, and the doors in the bulk-heads also are arranged one to swing and the other
. Electric railway journal . y. Woodendoors are used in these cars, because they are lighter andcheaper than steel doors and because the possibility of usingthe cars in subway service is rather remote at vestibule folding and sliding doors are solid cherry. As earlier stated, the car bodies are arranged for col-lecting fares according to the system of the Pay-as-You-Enter Car Corporation. The arrangement of platform rail-ings is the same as that described for the wooden cars of theChicago Railways Company, and the doors in the bulk-heads also are arranged one to swing and the other to The car body has five sets of windows on each side,with two upper sash and two lower sash in each set; thelower sash is arranged to drop into pockets, as earlier de-scribed. The window openings are 30 in. high. Stormsash are provided for all side windows, and these sash con-form in material and finish to the permanent sash. Allwindow sash are made of steel and were supplied by theHale & Kilburn Manufacturing Chicago Steel Cars—Insulation of Platform Steps The seating plan for the new steel cars is the same asthat for the 600 wooden cars earlier mentioned. It includeslongitudinal seats at the ends of the cars and cross seatsin the center. The seat and cushion frames are of pressedsteel. The metal trimmings inside the cars are cast bronzeheld in place by oval-headed screws. These new all-steel car bodies will be mounted on Pull-man No. 150 trucks, and will carry the same electrical andbraking equipment as that described in an earlier issue forthe 600 wooden cars. The following is an abstract of the specifications forpainting these steel cars: Material: All color used in the painting of these carsshall be of the Moser-Valentine, Sherwin-Williams make,or equal. Varnish shall be of Beckwith-Chandler, orequally good and approved guaranteed paint or varnish. All exposed, rough, unfinished steel requiring a smoothsurface, such as side sills, etc., to be painted as follo
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