A Study Of The Ventilation Of Railroad Cars

Author : Charles B. Dudley
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ISBN 13 : 9781331947837
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book The Passenger Car Ventilation System of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (Classic Reprint) written by Charles B. Dudley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Passenger Car Ventilation System of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company It seems not improbable that if a vote of the general traveling public could be taken on the question as to what improvement or change in passenger cars at the present time would most conduce to the comfort of passenger travel, a very large majority of the ballots would be in favor of an improvement in car ventilation. It is to be confessed, we think, that the discomfort attendant on riding a number of hours in a stuffy, over-heated passenger car, and especially the annoyance and discomfort from spending the night in an overheated, ill-ventilated sleeping car, are so great that it is not at all surprising that not only individual passengers but also the technical papers, and, indeed, the general press of the country, should from time to time break out into a tirade against the present condition of the ventilation of passenger cars. It is claimed that there are cases on record, where passenger car windows are fastened down, of passengers deliberately breaking the glass and paying for the same, in order that they might enjoy the benefits of fresh air. We think it fair to say, on the other hand, in justice to railroad officers, that the condition of affairs is not and has not been in the past entirely ignored by them. They are entirely conversant with the fact that the present passenger coach, and especially the sleeping car, is not properly ventilated, and it is not because of indifference, but because of the extreme difficulty of the problem that no more decided action has been taken in the past. If we succeed in what we have planned in this article, we think the difficulties to be overcome in the ventilation of passenger cars and the reasons for the present unsatisfactory state of affairs, will be better understood by the general public, than they are at the present time. The question of car ventilation has been studied more or less for a number of years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.