Low (Sloping) Floors & Brill & St. Louis Interurbans

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Floors originally sloped to facilitate ingress to conductor's booth in days
of center-entrance, front-exit 2-man cars.  By 1928, the interurbans were
all one-man, thus a more conventional floor was the standard for the 3800s.
Rebuilt LF cars also got level floors.

Ed

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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 5:35 PM
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Subject: Low (Sloping) Floors & Brill & St. Louis Interurbans


Greetings!

	Just looking at a photo of 3751 broadside, all doors open, and noticed
2-steps at center and 3-steps in front.  OF  COURSE  --  floors sloped
on some of these cars.

	Was this *standard* on the low floors?

	I believe the Brill interurbans, 3700--3714, had sloping floors between
the two trucks, yes?

	What about the St. Louis interurbans, 3800--3814; did their floors
slope as well?

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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