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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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to run out by gravity in cases of necessity,such as fire; and the trolley wires are so arranged thatthe current can be cut off of the wires inside of the build-ing by means of a switch on a pole outside at the streetline. Pits are provided under the tracks the entire lengthof the building, and the bottoms of the pits, as well as thefloor itself, are ofconcrete. The roof is of the iron trussed October, 1894.) THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 613 type, covered with corrugated iron, and the wing containsmachine shop, store room and other rooms, as shown onthe plan. A high pressure steam heating system has beenput in having a gravity return. A fifty horse power, verti-cal boiler is used, the water being returned to the boiler about 1,200 ft. long and ten feet high, which was builtalong the plank road between Rutherford and Passaic. Another view shows the arrangement of the bents onthe drawbridge over the Passaic River. A 500,000 circularmill, armored cable runs under the river and is connected
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VIEWS ON THE LINE OF THE PATERSON, PASSAIC & RUTHERFORD ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. by a Keiley trap. Two fire hydrants, one in the rear andone in the front of the building, are provided in case offire, and connected with the water main in the street,which carries fifty pounds pressure. A separate buildingis provided for the storage of oil and other inflammablematerials. A second illustration shows a part of a retaining wall with the feeders on each side, while a galvanized iron cableabout one inch in diameter is run across the river for theground return. Another view is taken on Main Street, inPassaic, and shows the Passaic & Newark Electric Rail-way lines and on the opposite side the Erie tracks. Between Passaic and Paterson for a short distancethe railway company has its own right of way, and the 614 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. X. No. 10. illustration in the upper right hand corner shows a smallbridge built over the Weasel Creek. The line from Pater-son to Little Falls and S

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