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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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R ORDERS BACK PL.\TFORM DES AIOINES P.\Y-AS-YOU-ENTER CAR sage which will be restricted by a pipe railing running in-ward from the rear end of the entrance step beyond the armof the turnstile. Passengers boarding the car will passthrough the turnstile before the conductor, who stands inthe usual place, collects the fare. Those who go insidethe. car will pay as they pass the conductor in going throughthe entrance door on the left-hand side. The conductor willcollect at his leisure from those who remain on the plat-form back to the turnstile passage railing. Passengers can-not lea\e the car without going inside and coming out The Portland (Ore.) Railway & Light Company is to trythe pay-as-you-enter plan and has secured the right forusing the principle upon 25 new cars. The ClevelandElectric Railway Company has secured the right for fivecars. The New York City Railway Company is consider-ing bids for 100 pay-as-you-enter cars and 150 28-ft. double-truck cars. TURBINE FOR THE FAR EAST
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E.XTERIOR VIEW OF DES .MOINES PAV-AS-YOU-ENTER CAR through the exit door or passing the conductor in the exitpassage when he lifts the railing behind which he stands topermit them to do so. No passengers are allowed to standin or leave the car through the front vestibule. The entrance door to the car swings inward, but theexit door is arranged to slide toward the center of the endbulkhead. A lever pivoted at the bottom near the floorand engaging a bracket on the inner edge of the door bya pin and slot is provided for the conductor to open orclose the door without leaving his position. Fares will berecorded on the turnstile register as well as on an ordinary No less than ten machines, aggregating 25,000 horse-power,are included in a large shipment of Westinghouse turbo-elec-tric power equipment from East Pittsburg to the Far East.Most of these machines will go to Japan for the equipmentof railway, lighting and manufacturing plants. One of thefirst machines to be put in service willbe a

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