. The Street railway journal . FIG. 20.—ELECTRIC CAR WITH A VESTIBULE NEARLY ENCLOSED AND A SEAT ONer. C^^^THE PLATFORM FIG. 21.—A DOUBLE-DECK FRENCH CARHAVING A VERY LONG PLATFORMCARRYING TWO SEATS UPON IT FIG. 22.—PLATFORM SEAT ON A HIGH-SPEED ELECTRIC CAR is just what would be expected. Confronted with similarconditions, we find a Yankee doing precisely the samething. When he builds a parlor car the passengers haveample time, there is to be no crowding, and we find thatthe steps are placed at the platform corner, as mav be seenin Fig. 15, which shows a parlor car built by the Brillsfor the

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. The Street railway journal . FIG. 20.—ELECTRIC CAR WITH A VESTIBULE NEARLY ENCLOSED AND A SEAT ONer. C^^^THE PLATFORM FIG. 21.—A DOUBLE-DECK FRENCH CARHAVING A VERY LONG PLATFORMCARRYING TWO SEATS UPON IT FIG. 22.—PLATFORM SEAT ON A HIGH-SPEED ELECTRIC CAR is just what would be expected. Confronted with similarconditions, we find a Yankee doing precisely the samething. When he builds a parlor car the passengers haveample time, there is to be no crowding, and we find thatthe steps are placed at the platform corner, as mav be seenin Fig. 15, which shows a parlor car built by the Brillsfor the Coney Island & Brooklvn road. Pigs. 16 and 17 show two French cars of difTerent de-sign, but in both of them the entrance to the platform isat one corner. There is, of course, a certain advantagein such a location when a vehicle comes to a full stopwhenever a passenger enters or leaves ; like a rear entrancCjit is convenient for both sides of the street. In Fig. 17the steps are almost at the platform end. The long pl

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