. Electric railway review . Pressed Steel Cars—Interior View of Cars for PhiladelphiaRapid Transit Company. car, 12 feet, 7 inches; opening for vestibule side door (be-tween door posts), 2 feet, 9 inches; width of end door open-ing. 3 feet, 2% inches; width of center door opening (side),3 feet, 4 inches; distance from center to center of trucks, 34feet, 6 inches; width over eaves-upper deck, 5 feet, 6%inches; width over caves-lower deck, 8 feet, 5% inches; widthof vestibule and door opening, 2 feet. The de:ails of equipment and interior fittings include:Westinghouse automatic air brakes comple
. Electric railway review . Pressed Steel Cars—Interior View of Cars for PhiladelphiaRapid Transit Company. car, 12 feet, 7 inches; opening for vestibule side door (be-tween door posts), 2 feet, 9 inches; width of end door open-ing. 3 feet, 2% inches; width of center door opening (side),3 feet, 4 inches; distance from center to center of trucks, 34feet, 6 inches; width over eaves-upper deck, 5 feet, 6%inches; width over caves-lower deck, 8 feet, 5% inches; widthof vestibule and door opening, 2 feet. The de:ails of equipment and interior fittings include:Westinghouse automatic air brakes complete with Westing-house D2 compressors: also automatic air couplers; bevelgeared vertical hand brakes on each end of car; twelve car-. Pressed Steel Cars—Interior of Coach for Southern Railway. lines per car of I/^.-inch by li^,-inch steel; Van Dorn couplerand draw bar; iiantasote curtains with Forsythe ring fixturesNo. 48; mahogany doors, lower half panelled and upper halfwith one light of i^-inch plate glass (the side doors and thoseat the center are arranged for opening and closing by pneu-matic devices from either end of the car); elastic strikes forthe vestibule side and center doors; 25 single electric lightfixtures, one headlight and two markers on each end; com-plete system of electric heating and apparatus for power for control; corrugated steel sheets covering underframe anitMonolithic flooring composition; interior finish of straight-grained mahogany; two motormens cabs on each car, atdiagonally opposite corners, right hand side; roof of tongueand groove poplar Vi-inch thick and covereo with 8-ouncecotton duck; safety chains, two on each end equipped with4-lnch diameter springs; pantagraph safety gates a
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