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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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-.It combines some of thefeatures of the Sessionsdouble-decker, with agreat many other im-provements, the jointinvention of C. L. Pull-man and H. H. Ses-sions. It is 33 feet, 8inches long, 7 feet, 4inches wide over all, and 14 feet, 9< inches high fromtrack over canopy. The entrances, of which there arefour, are at the side, and placed in the middle of the car.Permanent safety gates can be swung to close the sidenext the other track. A roomy platform leads to frontand rear, and conducts the passenger into a commodiousroom, in which the seat extends continuously around bothsides and the semi-circular end, from the windows ofwhich one may look in all directions, there being nothingto obstruct the vision, as there are no end platforms.These two compartments, similar in size and arrangement,each seating twenty passengers. From the central plat-form the upper deck is reached by four gently windingand quite ornamental light iron stairways of seven steps
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461 each, and the room afforded and the ease with which theascent is made is really astonishing. The upper seats areplaced back to back, with abundant room between theseat and railing, and extend from the stairway to thedrivers stand. These resemble a small pilot house,being placed at the extreme ends, and has glass sides,allowing driver to look in every direction and at the sametime affording entire protection from the weather andany temptation to visit with the passengers. The trolleypoles are short, not more than 5 feet in length, and arecontrolled by the driver by a pair of ropes passing undersmall pulleys, but easil) handled. The canopy is as wideas the car, is supported In neat bra.ss po.sts, and at the edge has spring rollercanvas curtains whichdraw down and hook tothe top of the guard rail,making the upper deckeven better protectedthan the ordinary opencar under like circum-stances. Clusters of incandes-cent lamps and oil lampsmake the upper deckand the two compart-ments below

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