. Electric railway journal . Folding Steps in Two Positions on Duluth Cars trouble a folding step has been adopted for the front endof the car and a shear web has been applied just in front. Shear Plate on Duluth Cars of the rear step, and this construction has been adopted asstandard on all cars. The step at the front end of the car is of the stirrup type,purely for the use of the motorman, as the car is of thesingle-end type, and, when folded, this step is high enoughso thai a wagon wheel huh will pass under it. The step isof bar iron and is pivoted at the* points of attachment to thecar bod
. Electric railway journal . Folding Steps in Two Positions on Duluth Cars trouble a folding step has been adopted for the front endof the car and a shear web has been applied just in front. Shear Plate on Duluth Cars of the rear step, and this construction has been adopted asstandard on all cars. The step at the front end of the car is of the stirrup type,purely for the use of the motorman, as the car is of thesingle-end type, and, when folded, this step is high enoughso thai a wagon wheel huh will pass under it. The step isof bar iron and is pivoted at the* points of attachment to thecar body and between the horizontal bar and the uprights. This permits the step to collapse under the car side sill whenstruck by a wagon wheel. The view shows it in both posi-tions, it being supported in the collapsed position by ahand. The shear plate at the rear step is simply a protective de-vice to force a wagon wheel away from the step and gates,it is bolted to the side sill and end sill in the vertical angleformed by the side sill and steps and is held rigidly in posi-tion by a forged bracket. The web is triangular-shapedwith the hypothenuse of the triangle dished or rounded intothe
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