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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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d we donot find that the operation of vestibule cars tends to in-crease the number of accidents. We have operated bothstyles of cars, and are able to state facts on this point.At our terminals we use either loops or Ys, and there-fore vestibule one end only. We are opposed to vesti-buling both ends, as we cannot carry as many passengers winds and storms. We did not find that the cold and wetweather made it difficult for the men to see through theglass. We did not put on a perfectly tight vestibule, butleft one side open. We think the vestibules are a pro-tection to our passengers and they are especially beneficialto companies who have to heat their cars. It makesquite a saving in fuel, because every time the car doorsare opened you do not have a direct blast of cold wind toblow all the heat out of the car. THREE FAVORABLE \IEWS. F. B. Musser, superintendent of the East HarrisburgPassenger Railway Company, Harrisburg, Pa., writes: We consider the vestibules referred to a decided advan-
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DfrT/\(.H/\BLe Hooo (lUl ()00l^ JACKSON * SHARP VESTIBULE. nor handle them as readily where the rear end is vesti-buled. THEY S.VVE FUEL. George B. Hippee, manager of the Des Moines CityRailway Company, Des Moines, la., writes : About a year ago this last winter a bill was introducedin our legislature to compel street railway companies inour state to vestibule their cars. This bill was defeated.At that time we were very much opposed to vestibules,thought they were a bad thing for the cars and wouldbe a dangerous thing to invest in. Since then we havechanged our minds. We have put on a number of ves-tibules this past winter and are very much pleased withthem and intend before ne.xt winter to have all of our carsvestibuled. We think they are a very great and goodprotection to our men and that the men are enabled tooperate the cars easier and with more care than theycould without them, being protected from the cutting tage in our climate, in protecting employes from theinclemency of the

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