mwserr262_motorcab.jpg (297k) After Metropolitan West Side Elevated car 262 was rebuilt with closed vestibules and air doors (American Car & Foundry, 1907), this view of the motorcab controls was made. Various elements were labeled A through I for reference. The identified equipment is as follows: Item A is the WH-11 master controller (sometimes referred to as a "sidewinder", due to its vertical mounting rather than the more typical horizontal mounting for a controller, resulting in the motorman rotating the controller handle side-to-side to operate it); item B is the engineer's brake valve; item C is the duplex gauge; item D (out of this view) is the whistle valve; item E is the air brake cut-out cock; item F is the line switch cut-out; and item G is the reset switch. H and I are battery cut-out switches. (Photo courtesy of the Krambles-Peterson Archive)
	cer_woods_1913_52nd.jpg (188k) Spacing boards installed on the center footwalk are seen on the South Side elevated at 52nd Street keeping two trains of wood-bodied "L" cars safely distanced in 1913. (Photo courtesy of the Krambles-Peterson Archive)
	crt1143_19370206 _underframe.jpg (222k) One of the results of the collision at Granville in 1936, where a heavy-weight steel North Shore Line train hit a wood-bodied car at the rear of an "L" train, was the Illinois Commerce Commission ordering the installation of six through channels in the underframes/end sills of the wood-steel cars. Here, car 1143 is in the process of being modified in accordance with the ICC order. (Photo courtesy of the Krambles-Peterson Archive)