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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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rtionof the panels, and are made removable. When a car of this type is wanted for summer service, windowsand panels are taken out and stored. This leaves the cross seatsand central aisle body with sides so low as to make it, in efifcct, anopen car. The absence of side entrances, of course, makes ^uch a that several orders were placed for same type of car long beforethe first one was finished and shipped to its destination. As has been said, its appearance is much like the cars ordinarilyused. The windows are much larger, and the window vail islower, though it does not, however, come quite down to the seatlevel. The noticeable feature, however, is that the sash are not re-moved for storage, neither do they, as in some convertible cars,drop into pockets. The serious objection to this last method ofconstruction and disposal of sash are that the pockets take upvaluable room in the wall of the car. This reduces the space inthe car body, while at tlie same time the jirickets become rccepta-
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INTERIOR OF SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR car somewhat slower to load and unload than the regular opencar, but there are offsetting advantages. The side panels, al-though somewhat lower than the usual forms, have great strength,and add stiffness to the car body, at the same time they make itmuch safer for passengers in case of accident than the open car,pure and simple, with its side entrances. The greater windowspaces make them much more satisfactory for summer service thanthe ordinary box car with the windows open. The window railis usually almost on a level with the seat.The new type of Brill semi-convertible car, which is shown here- cles for dirt or refuse, which is thrown into them. This inter-feres with the handling of the sash. Dirt and moisture also ac-cumulate, and unless the space is ventilated there is trouble fromthe decay of the wood. When ventilated, however, there aredrafts which are uncomfortable for the passenger. In the semi-convertible cars which have been employed inBaltim

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