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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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et JitneyCompetition in the Puget Sound Region rially embodying the low-floor principle. Its designincluded a straight floor without ramps at the oldstandard height of 36 in., the wheels being 30 in.in diameter. In the center portion of the bodythere was a well 10 in. deep, and an outside foldingstep 13 in. above the rail provided access to the wellfloor. The design, in consequence, was notable inthat it made use only of the center entrance with-out complicating the issue by combining it witheasy-access features. Several practically similarcars were subsequently built in small lots for othercities, but the fact that the design has neverachieved extended popularity exemplifies the influ-ence of the major objection to the plain center-entrance cars, namely, congestion at the single cen-ter doorway. To reduce this congestion the Washington car,like the Brooklyn design, has its center doorwaydivided into three parts, the two outer sectionsbeing used for outgoing passengers and the section
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in the center being used only for an entrance. Inregard to this feature the Pittsburgh car is quitedifferent, as its center doorway is divided into twoparts, each of which is closed by an independentlyoperated door. In the New York design still anotherarrangement is used, the whole doorway being aclear opening. The three arrangements are widely opposed inregard to their principle of handling passengers.On the New York car the idea is to have all out-going passengers leave the car before any prospect-ive passengers start to board it. In the Brooklynand Washington designs the idea is to have loadingand unloading proceed simultaneously, through theestablishment of separate lines of incoming andoutgoing passengers. In the Pittsburgh design, onthe other hand, the basic idea of the arrangementis flexibility of movement, so that the conductor candirect the movement of passengers in and out ofthe car in accordance with the immediate needs ofthe situation. The latter radical departure fromthe

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