Identifier: electricrailwayr17amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ngs and photographs illustrate clearly the general appearance April 6, 1907 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 453 and type of construction of the new motor cars. It will benoted that the companys California-type standards have beenobserved. The car body is 40 feet 3% inches long, over all, and Sfeet 4 inches wide at the belt. A bulkhead divides the bodyinto halves, one of which, the smoking compartment, has ashseats and the other, the main compartment, rattan coveredseats. In all, there are seats provided for 48 passengers. The car the conductor is never more than one-half the cars lengthfrom the entering and leaving passengers. He is at this ex-treme distance only momentarily. With the center entrance,the load divides, part taking seats in each half of the car.In unloading, the movement of passengers is the opposite,and thus it is seen that the passengers at the extreme endsof the cars are but one-half a car length from the door. Theconductors position is near the door, and with the center en-
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New Light Motor Cars. Denver—Interior of Cab Showing Control and Automatic Attachments. arrangement of the seats is shown in the accompanying plan.An aisle 23 inches wide extends the full length of the car,the cross seats being 32 inches long. The height of the carbody from the bottom of the sills to the top of trolley boardis 9 feet 10 inches. The climate of Denver warrants the use of a car that ispractically open most of the time. For this reason the win-dows of the new cars were made as large as possible. Thesashes are built to drop in pockets having covers. The distancefrom the top of these covers to the car floor is less than usual. trance he can maintain this position and yet be the shortestpossible average distance from all his passengers. This car body, complete with electric heaters, drawbarsand carriers, hand-brake rigging, seats for 48 passengers andthe other necessary fittings, ready to be run, weighs 10,150pounds. This is a net weight per unit seating capacity of211.5 p

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