. Electric railway journal . Dipping and Baking Corner July 16, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 101. Atlanta Single-Truck Car Before and After Remodeling to Introduce Feature Remodels Single-Truck Cars WITH about 163 single-truck, twenty-eight seattwo-man cars on its hands, the Georgia Railway &Power Company, Atlanta, Ga., has been studying thebest manner of applying these cars to the service re-quirements. They are all of one type, with open plat-forms and bulkhead doors and thus arranged only forinside fare collection. The Atlanta management has not yet decided to makeuse of the one-m
. Electric railway journal . Dipping and Baking Corner July 16, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 101. Atlanta Single-Truck Car Before and After Remodeling to Introduce Feature Remodels Single-Truck Cars WITH about 163 single-truck, twenty-eight seattwo-man cars on its hands, the Georgia Railway &Power Company, Atlanta, Ga., has been studying thebest manner of applying these cars to the service re-quirements. They are all of one type, with open plat-forms and bulkhead doors and thus arranged only forinside fare collection. The Atlanta management has not yet decided to makeuse of the one-man car principle, but did want to installthe pay-as-you-enter feature as far as possible. Atfirst it was decided to remodel one car only as anexperiment and the following changes were made:The doors in the bulkhead were taken out and a stan-chion placed at each side of the opening thus left inthe bulkhead; folding doors and steps were installed oneach side of each platform, the cars being arranged fordouble-end operation; a guard rail about 30 in. long wasplaced on the platform in front of
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