Delivery of Car 309

Julie gave me a set of very detailed and expanded copies of the Electric Railway Review article from Nov. 1907 announcing the delivery of two new cars to the AE&C, the 309 and 310.

These are printed on pages about 12" x 18" and you have to see them to believe them. Unfortunately, my home scanner can't handle pages that size very well and these images aren't the best; I plan to find a better way to scan them. I'll update this post when I do. I've shrunk them to an effective size of 100 pixels per inch.

The only major change to the interior of the 309 was the removal of the International fare register system about 1920.

I've always been impressed by diagrams such as the one of the vestibule side door where all three dimensions are superimposed. The plan shows what must be a window shade box on the inside, which has disappeared. Also, the end doors originally had double panes; the inner one is long gone.