Electric railway journal (1911) (14759235912)

Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches)

Title: Electric railway journal

Year: 1908 (1900s)

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Subjects: Electric railroads

Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co

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ting sys-tem. Entrance steps are provided at diagonally oppositecorners and end doors at both ends. The interiors of thecars are arranged as follows: The mens smoking andwash room is at one end of the car and occupies the full in the car are inclosed in rectangular-shaped frosted glassshades, held in cast bronze fixtures supported by cast-bronze square tubing. The womens saloon is at the opposite end of the carfrom the mens. It includes toilet fixtures similar to thosein the mens room, and occupies a space of 6 ft. 3 in. longon one side of the center aisle. Across the aisle from itare two linen lockers, each 2 ft. 6 in. square in plan andreaching to the ceiling. A Peter Smith hot-water heateris installed in a steel-lined closed compartment on the plat-form space adjoining the womens salon. This location forthe heater avoids taking coal and ashes in and out of thecar body. The center of the car body is divided into five sections.The end sections contain Pullman type berths on each side

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Illinois Traction System—Details of Berth Sections of Sleeping Car width of the body for a length of 8 ft. 3 in. An interiorview showing the generous space allotted to the wash roomis shown. The mens toilet room, which contains a flushhopper, is set off from the vestibule space and is about3 ft. 10 in. in length, opening into the smoking room.This toilet room occupies about one-third of the platformspace. The equipment of the smoking and wash room in- of the aisle. The three center sections have hinged berthsfitted according to the designs of the Illinois Traction Sys-tem. In these five sections of the car twenty berths areprovided, each of which is 6 ft. 5 in. long and 38^ in.wide. Seats for 16 people are provided in the two-endPullman sections. The arrangement of the hinged berths is shown in the 524 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 14. cross-section of the car. They are installed between rigidbulkheads, which extend from side to side of the car, andgreatly increase th

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