. The Street railway journal . ich posts are halved upon the letterboardand bolted to both letterboard and plate makes the construction, as we have said, unusually strong. Cars of this type have been inuse for some time, and have had their share of collisions, wherethey have demonstrated their superiority by coming out of thewrecks with little or no damage to themselves. President Ely, of the BufTalo Railway Company, has for hisprivate car a Brill semi-convertible parlor car. This car is .31 ft. 8ins. over the end panels, and 7 ft. 8V2 ins. wide at the sill. Over the PRIVATE CAR, BUFFALO RAILW
. The Street railway journal . ich posts are halved upon the letterboardand bolted to both letterboard and plate makes the construction, as we have said, unusually strong. Cars of this type have been inuse for some time, and have had their share of collisions, wherethey have demonstrated their superiority by coming out of thewrecks with little or no damage to themselves. President Ely, of the BufTalo Railway Company, has for hisprivate car a Brill semi-convertible parlor car. This car is .31 ft. 8ins. over the end panels, and 7 ft. 8V2 ins. wide at the sill. Over the PRIVATE CAR, BUFFALO RAILWAY—AN EXAMPLE OF THE SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR posts it measures 8 ft. Private cars and other forms of specialparlor cars are becoming very popular with the larger railwaylines, and the car illustrated is one of the latest examples from theBrill shops, and it is peculiarly interesting, because, in spite ofthe very large window sash, they can be raised, not only to anydesired height, but, as shown in the engraving at the left-hand. INTERIOR OF SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR end of the car, they can. when necessary, be raised so as to leavethe whole window free and clear. This is something which hasnot heretofore been accomplished, eitlier in parlor cars or thosehaving large sash. The advantages of the semi-convertible con-struction are at once apparent, securing, as it does, ample open-ing with any size of glass. The car body is of the usual type for
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