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Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (find matches)
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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efirst of these is the blacksmith shop, 75 ft. x 38 ft. Inthis there will be a steam hammer and four blacksmithfires and several furnaces. The next room, another subdi-vision of the long strip along the side of the paint shop, isthe brass foundry. This is 50 ft. x 38 ft. in dimensions.It will have a sand floor, and will be complete in every par-ticular. New apparatus will be bought for it—benches, work, they will change their clothes again and go to theirhomes clean and refreshed. An oil and paint room, 20 ft. x 38 ft., adjoins the washand clothes room. The walls of this room will be carriedup higher than the walls surrounding it, like a low chim-ney, for in this room will be stored the supply of oils andpaints, and there would be danger of fire. The last of thisrow of rooms is the largest, being 140 ft. x 38 ft., and itwill be used for painting the trimmings and smaller partsof the cars, such as sashes, linings and other parts. The main part of the building will be used, of course.
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Elevation. Street Uy.Journal PLAN OF NEW REPAIR SHOPS OF THE METROPOLITAN STREET RAILWAY COMPANY AT KANSAS CITY flasks, furnace crucibles of different sizes and the other ap-pliances that will be needed. Next to the brass foundry will be the toilet rooms andbath rooms. This room will be 15 ft. x 38 ft. The menemployed in the cramped shops of the Metropolitan Com-pany now are obliged to go to their homes dirty after adays work because there is not room in the building to pro-vide the necessary toilet facilities. In the new shops therewill be tub and shower baths and every necessary and con-venient thing for the bath rooms, for next to the toiletand bath room is the large wash and clothes room. In thisthere will be one hundred fireproof lockers, and wash-bowls, so that from twelve to fifteen men can wa.sh at once.As soon as the men reach the shops in the morning theywill go to the clothes room, change their clothes for theoveralls of the shops, and lock their other clothing in theirlock

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