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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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gle steel overhead I beams and trolleys with hoistsattached. At the 100-ton wheel press, one of the lines leading fromthe pit transfer has its transfer in the radial length of Ibeam, which is pivoted on the track end, the other end be-ing mounted on a small trolley made to travel in the arc ofa circle upon another I beam placed crosswise overhead,to which the radial beam is directly attached by meansof the trolley mentioned. Another circular beam, andanother transverse trolley support the I beam in aboutthe middle of its 16-ft. length. A novel method of supporting the wooden trusses wasadopted. Outside of the building, at places where the oldwalls had fallen, pilasters were built to sustain the endsof the trusses, which were built right into the walls, stonesbeing placed in the wall to receive them. Inside, a tim-ber was set under the truss, and framed into it, also boltedto the brick-work, with large star washers outside. Wherethe old walls were standing, and the steel posts remained
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FIG. 3.—LATHE FOR BORING BEARINGS built into the walls, the end of the truss was placed ontop of the steel built-up post, and the wooden post car-ried down nearly to the ground and bolted through, asdescribed, another section of wood being used on theother side of the wall, instead of the star washers. The en- April, 1898.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 183 tire shop is electrically driven from the railway circuit, a100-k.w. motor being used for the main drive, and a num-ber of smaller motors are scattered through the shop,which is heated by a hot-air system, a fan and enclosedheating coils being used, the hot air being deliveredthrough frequent openings near the top of the walls of theshop. The shop is lighted by monitors built in the roofs,the section of roof (.there are two sections) furthestfrom the vertical windows in the walls being furnishedwith a higher monitor than the section of roof nearestto the side-wall windows. In addition to the above, agreat number of circular overhead br

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