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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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enter of the car and from both sides. To gain seating capacitya movable sea was placed in the entrance space. It had a reversi-ble lack. In Fig. 16 it is shown pushed toward the side fromwhich the picture is taken, the entrance being on the oppositeside Owing to the narrowness of the car all the seats were madelongitudinal. In the lasi mentioned car there wire no curtains to the open 1 In the Denver cars the old fashioned carriage curtainsare employed. In the closed portion we understand that dropblinds of wood are used to exclude the sun. Generally in the May 20. 1902) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 273 East wood blinds are gradually being pushed out of service bythe lighter and more convenient spring roller curtain. The latterby reason of the closeness with which it can be made to tit isa much better protection against storm than the carriage curtainas commonly used. The chief advantage, however, is ilu easeand speed with which it may be drawn down or raised. WATER POWER FOR SWISS RAILWAYS.
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IM.. 16—COMBINATION CAK WITH SHORT PLATFORM. Perhaps the oddest affair in the way of a combination car whichhas ever been put in service was one built by the Brill companyfor the Mount Lowe Ry. It was a motor car with a closed bodyand platforms without hoods. The body was short and the plat-forms long. It was mounted on a four-wheel truck. As the en-trance was always at stations with elevated platforms slips werenot necessary. Even stirrups were omitted since its was not de-sirable that there should be any entrances or < it at theends of the runs. All the seats were longitudinal, both on theplatform and in the body. For the sake of gaining space thebacks of all the seats were placed outward, and in addition tothis there were scats at the entrances. Glancing at Fig. 17. thegates will be seen opened out against the platform side. The topof these gates when closed form the back of a seat. The sealitself fills the entrance opening when in place. Referring againto the engraving, it wi

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