Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-21
Thursday. August 2l, 1884.
THE NEW DINING CARS.
The Luxurious Restaurant Coachei
 for the Consolidated Road

The Luxurious Restaurant Coaches for the Consolidated Road
 The new dining cars now being built in ! Springfield, to run between Worcester and New Haven, are receiving their inside finish and will be ready for use on or before Sep l tember 10th. When completed they will be the finest dining cars in the country and will have cost sig, 800 each. The total length, including platforms, is seventy-two feet, and the inside height eight feet and ten inches. They are built with a Norman arch roof, without the deck usually found, which gives additional strength. The roof will be GOV cred with cloth instead of tin, making it cooler in summer and warmer in winter. The Mann system of ventilation has been adopted, by which air is admitted through tunnels in the roof to the filter room, next the heating room at one end of the car. In summer the air passes over water, when it enters this room and then goes through wet excelsior, which removes all dust and cin- ders. It then passes over ice and finally along the floor of the car to openings under
 each pair of seats. In winter the connection between the filter room and the body of the car is closed and the air passes around the heater, following the line of pipes and dis charging as before. To insure the perfect working of the system it is necessary that there be no other air inlets, and the window
 sashes are so fitted with rubber and plush as to make them perfectly tight. Air passes
 out of the car by twenty-four globe ventil- ators.
 The dining room is 30 feet and 10 inches
 long and has five tables, seating four per sons each on each side. The seats fold back when not in use, and are upholstered in red leather The floors are of alternate strips of maple and cherry and will be furnished with aisle carpets. The interior wood work is of solid mahogany. A vestibule at one end of
 the car contains all the conveniences for
 washing, and also wine locker and ice chests. The buffet room is nine feet and
 eight inches long, contains an elegant mahog-
 any buffet and has large mirrors in the cen
 ter and on the sides. The kitchen, which is
 at the other end of the car, is seventeen feet
 long and is furnished with every possible
 convenience, including hot and cold
 water, which are also found in the
 chest will also be carried on the
 platform at the kitchen end of the car, and
 under the car there are boxes for carrying
 provisions. The floor of the kitched is covered
 with sheet copper and there are three thick nesses of galvanized iron with air spaces be- tween, back of the range to insure against danger from fire. The only opening between the dining room and kitchen is 8 small slid ing window for passing dishes, and to pass from the former to the latter it is necessary to go out on the platform through passage
 way two feet wide on the side of the car next to the kitchen. At the kitchen end of the car railing extends entirely around the platform and at the opposite end there are
 steps and gates. The trimmings throughout
 the car are of bronze. One of the cars will
 be painted in Boston and Albany colors and the other like those of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road.