Building Railway Coaches with Side Doors.

Progress, Volume III, Issue I, 1 November 1907, Page 26

Building Railway Coaches with Side Doors.

President~Harnman, of the Southern Pacific, a short time ago gave orders to have a number of new fine passen°er coaches built at the company 's car shops at Sacramento with side doors instead of end doors Harnman believes that cars thus constructed will be much stronger and more durable than the stjle now used , and also that in case of wreck, there will be little danger of the co?ches telescoping each other. These new cars will have a small passageway by which passengers may go from one coach to another, but this will be so arranged that it will not weaken the end walls of the ca r s. Another feat tire of these coaches is the use of rcund instead of square -windows. New latent ventilators now being used by the Umcn Pacific ou its motor cars will be placed on the new coaches, and the cars wiil present an appearance so It tie m romnnn with the ordinary coach that they will at first hardly be recognised as passenger vehicles. Some of thes^ cars will soon be completed and placed in commission on the Southern Pacific western roads.