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The more common practice, however, is to cross tie and even 

 tie from above, allowing but little play. It usnally matters not 

 whether the horse is headed or backed to the locomotive, as a 

 car rarely arrives in the same direction in which it was started, 



Fig. 166. — Express horse car partitioned into stalls, four groups of four stalls 

 each lengthwise of the car. 



unless on a short, straight run. If a mixed car of stock is shipped, 

 necessitating the partitioning of the car, such partitions should 

 be very substantial in both material ahd construction. Horses 

 have been seriously injured and permanently blemished by being 

 thro'wn through or against frail or makeshift partitions. 

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