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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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tracks and for the en-tire width of the car house. The rails and the woodenrloor rest on a special iron framework. The pit floor isalso of concrete. Parallel with the trolley wire over thecars in the car house is a dead steel cable, called a restingwire, against which the trolley poles can be set when itwould be convenient to have the poles dead, without pull-ing them down. The main repair workshop has a floor area of 914 squarem (9870 square ft.) with four tracks, each 12 m (39 ft.) inlength, with pits extending their entire length; that is, thelength and width of the repair shop, so that there is roomfor four large cars in the shop. The shop contains sevenlathes of different size and construction, one screw-tap,five drilling and cutting machines, one plane, two millingmachines, one automatic wheel shaper of American make,one large and one small plate-shearing machine, onepunch, one hydraulic press, three grinding machines, one^rind-stone, three work-benches with fourteen vises each.
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LAYING ASPHALT PAVING etc. The machine tools are all driven from a main shaftby a 15-hp electric motor. There are also two cranes,each able to carry 4000 kg (8800 lbs.). The winding isdone in a gallery, which is 32 m (105 ft.) x 8 m (26 ft.). In the same building is the smithy, of 73 square m (786square ft.) floor space, containing a double forge with fanand hood, power hammer, three anvils, and miscellaneousequipment. Adjoining the smithy are the office of thesuperintendent of the repair shop, and the model-room,while on the second floor are the tailoring department andlockers. An extension to the building contains the carpentersshop, of 180 square m (1940 square ft.) floor space, inwhich a band saw, a planing machine and a universal ma-chine for planing, drilling, etc., are operated from a shaftdriven by a 15-hp motor; the same shaft operates an ex-haust fan for removing shavings and dust from the wood-working machines. The same building also contains thepainting and varnishing shop

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