Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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SIDE VIEW OF CAR NO. 2 type, which resembles those on Pullman sleeping cars, is a foldingdoor in two parts, hinged in the middle and doubling like a jack-knife. The piincipal advantage in these is that they can behandled much more readily with crowded platforms than fullswinging doors. On the door leading from the vestibule to the body of the car on the sliding door between the vestibule andcar body. This door is made to latch so that itcannot swing open with the swaying of the car,but the handle is so constructed that the pressureon it to open the door unlatches it with the samemovement. 111 one car the lower windows are stationaryand the upper windows are arranged to raise;in the other car the upper and lower sash arearranged to raise; the windows in one car haveordinary double-thick sheet glass and the other3-16 in. polished plate, while all doors in bothcars have %-in. polished plate. Both cars have Pantasote curtains, with pinchhandle fixtures. One car has cocoa mats andone linol

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