. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . passenger coaches are about 35 feet long,with a center passage right through thetrain. The seats are on the sides, thesame as in our street cars. About tenor twelve of these coaches are pulled Ina small engine of English type. An average train of ten cars wouldbe made up of. say, nine third classcoaches and one combination first andsecond class coach, in which there is adivision between the two classes. Justunder the windows on the outside of thecar, there is painted a 4-inch band—white, blue
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . passenger coaches are about 35 feet long,with a center passage right through thetrain. The seats are on the sides, thesame as in our street cars. About tenor twelve of these coaches are pulled Ina small engine of English type. An average train of ten cars wouldbe made up of. say, nine third classcoaches and one combination first andsecond class coach, in which there is adivision between the two classes. Justunder the windows on the outside of thecar, there is painted a 4-inch band—white, blue or red. White means firstclass, blue second class, and red thirdclass. The foregoing is the equipment ofordinary trains, from which it will In- sonthat first class passengers are third class coaches have a verynarrow seat around the sides, and inmany cases this can be let down, as theJapanese do not use chairs, but squat onthe floor. There are no chairs in Japanesehouses. In addition to the ordinary trains,there are trains on which an extra fareis charged, such as express trains, trains. ALEIH RAILWAY STATION, TURKEY. de luxe, with parlor cars and sleepingcars. Every long distance train has adining car. Everything American or Europeanin Japan and China is called dining cars have foreign cookingalmost exclusively; that is, French cook-ing, but on some there is a compartmentwhere Japanese food is served. The train crew comprises about thesame number of men as our own. Engi-neers, firemen, conductors and brakemenare all Japanese. There is one trainman who is a sortof under-brakeman. He is called the English word Boy is in goldletters on the collar of his coat. He per-forms the duties of a porter and assiststhe brakemen. For instance, he sweepsout the car, closes windows when thetrain is approaching tunnels, and, in gen-eral, looks after the comfort of the pas-sengers. All these boys speak English,or what they think will pass for English,and I never s
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