. The Street railway journal . emi-convertible cars ofthe Brill type, built by the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company, havelately been received by the Chillicothe Electric Railroad, Light& Power Company. Chillicothe is thirty miles directly southof Columbus, with which it is connected by the Scioto ValleyTraction Companys interurban lines, as well as by steamlines. Another interurban line is planned to connect the citywith Cincinnati, forty miles to the west. The city lies in a richagricultural district and has excellent facilities for transport-ing products by the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, the No
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. The Street railway journal . emi-convertible cars ofthe Brill type, built by the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company, havelately been received by the Chillicothe Electric Railroad, Light& Power Company. Chillicothe is thirty miles directly southof Columbus, with which it is connected by the Scioto ValleyTraction Companys interurban lines, as well as by steamlines. Another interurban line is planned to connect the citywith Cincinnati, forty miles to the west. The city lies in a richagricultural district and has excellent facilities for transport-ing products by the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, the Nor-folk & Western and the Cincinnati, Dayton & Hamilton. The new cars have the standard features and dimensionsfor this single-truck, semi-ronvertible type, being 20 ft. 8 ins.over the bodies and 30 ft. i in. over the crown pieces. Theinteriors are finished in cherry, with birch veneer ceilings.The incandescent lamps are placed singly at intervals underthe monitor deck and along the lower ventilator rails. Push-. SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR FOR CHILLICOTHE ELECTRIC RAIL-ROAD, LIGHT & POWER COMPANY over seats with corner grab handles are of Brill manufacture, and other specialties of the same make include angle-ironbumpers, folding-door controllers, ratchet brake handles andradial drawbars, Dunipit sand boxes, Dedenda platformgongs and Retriever signal bells. The width of the cars overthe posts is 8 ins., and as the walls are without window pock-ets they are but 2 ins. thick, leaving an interior width of 7 ft.8 ins. to be divided between seats and aisle. The seat cush-ions are 35 ins. long, and the aisle 22 ins. wide. The longi-tudinal corner seats are 31 ins. long. The bottom frame in-cludes i2-ins. x y%-. steel plates, and the side sills are 3%ins. X 5 ins. thick; end sills 3^/^ x 8 ^ ins.; thickness of thecorner posts, 3^ ins., and the side posts, 2^ ins. The carsare mounted on No. 21-E trucks, which have a wheel baseof 7 ft. 6 ins., and 33-in. wheels. Two 25-hp motors are usedper tru