. American engineer . Extreme Simplicity Governs the Interior Finish. car equipment is an important part of the rolling stock. Re-cently in ordering new cars of this type the company used theframing of the standard Pennsylvania P-70 all-steel coach as thebasis of what has proved to be very commodious and attractive ()arlor cars, of which ten lia\e been built by the American Car& Foundry Company. The structural part of these cars hasbeen very fully described and illustrated in these columns.*They are 70 ft. 5Kt i. long over the body corner posts, and havebeen arranged for 26 chairs, a drawing r
. American engineer . Extreme Simplicity Governs the Interior Finish. car equipment is an important part of the rolling stock. Re-cently in ordering new cars of this type the company used theframing of the standard Pennsylvania P-70 all-steel coach as thebasis of what has proved to be very commodious and attractive ()arlor cars, of which ten lia\e been built by the American Car& Foundry Company. The structural part of these cars hasbeen very fully described and illustrated in these columns.*They are 70 ft. 5Kt i. long over the body corner posts, and havebeen arranged for 26 chairs, a drawing room with a sofa andtwo movable chairs, a smoking room with five,wicker chairs, ora total of 36 seats in addition to two toilets and the necessaryli)ckers, etc. M\treme simplicity tas been the keynote of the design inihc interior, and the flatness of the surfaces has been relieved. General Interior View of Steel Parlor Car. with small moldings only. Commodious racks of a square boxdesign in keeping with the rest of the car have been providedin place of hooks. The only sign of ornamentation in the in-terior is found in the door posts and caps at either end and this,as tuay be seen in the illustration, is severely simple in itstreatment. The interior is finished in a steel grey tone, beingrelieved with narrow gold stripping and a fine red line in thepanels. The lower deck is of slightly darker shade than theside. Special care has been given in the interior to get smoothsurfaces and nicely rounded corners at the junction of all of the *See American Engineer & Railroad Journal, June. 1907. page 222.
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