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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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^-4.0n-f4.0-r—lO-O-^-fSTr ^4.0>—lO-o—K.OrrKo-r—io!&-^4:ot»-Ot 2.0 oO 2,0* A Model Stable. The Brooklyn City R. R. have recentlycompleted a stable for the use of the Put-nam Avenue and Halsey Street line of carsthat may beregardedas a model both of sim-plicity and convenience. It is not as large PLAN OF SECOND STORr. as many other stables that might be foundin either New York or Brooklyn, but itsappointments are first class and we thinkit will be fouud more interesting to aliirge class of readers than the stables ofgreater cap\city would be. Few roads haveneed of accommodations for three or four thousand horses, and yet it is not uncom-mon to find as many hundred under oneroof. Through the courtesy of the offici-als and especially of Mr. Dickey the archi-tect for the company we are enabled to givecomplete illustrations showing the arrange-ment and construction of the building. 234 THE STEEET EAILWAY JOTJRNAIi. (May, 1886.
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Tiie Hitlsey Street line having outgrownits original accommodations on Gates ave-nue, it-was decided to erect these stables ontheir present site. TJiey stand at the endof the line, facing Halsey street, and westof Broadway, having stall capacity forabout 400 horses. The construction of the building was car-ried on in a most thorbugh and workman-like manner. The walls are of brick; thefront being supported on iron columnsacross the car shed, leaving openings forthe tracks ; while the interior is of woodneatly whitewashed. Below the officeswhich are located in the southeast cornerof the building, there is a small cellar, withlight holes. There is seven feet of head-i-oom here clear of the beams, with thefloor six feet below the top of the mainwalls. The trench for the front wall of thiscellar was sunk to the same depth as thatof the muiu foundations, while the insidewalls run down to 12 below the floor. Thetrench for the walls at the uorthwe.it cornerof the building was 3 deej) and wide

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