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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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doorwaysare protected on their edges by steel angle-irons, and steel con- and 27 ft. deep. It has a basement and is twostories in height. On each end a loggia, 11 ft.wide, forms a covered passageway from thestreet to the platforms in the rear. The centralpart of the ground floor is occupied by themain waiting room, which contains a ticketoffice booth and news stand. The floor of thisroom is of mosaic tile, and the woodwork is ofdark paneled oak. Electric lights, let into theceiling, give a pleasing effect to this feature ofillumination. The left wing contains the mensand womens waiting rooms, and the rightwing is reserved for the baggage room, thereceivers and despatchers offices and the stair-way leading to the second story. The second flooi* is occupied by the officesof the executive department of the road. Ahall running the length of the building sepa-rates the offices. In front are the offices ofthe general manager and auditor, and in therear the superintendent, the paymaster, the
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REPAIR SPIOP, SHOWING INSPECTION PITS AND METHOD OF RAISING CAR TO REMOVE TRUCK June 13, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 867 nections are used in the roof truss connections and elsewhere,as demanded in that type of construction. A covered platform, 8 ft. wide, runs on each side of thebuilding and across the near end, and it is extended along thetrack for 100 ft. A wide roadway, paved withbelgian blocks, opens from Cedar Avenue, andon this the receiving platform faces. CAR HOUSE AND REPAIR SHOPAt the extreme south end of the yard arelocated the car house, on the yard level, andadjacent to it, but 12 ft. lower, the powerhouse. The car house has a frontage on the yardof 146 ft., and is 177 ft. long and 28 ft. 6 ins.high in the clear. It is divided into three baysby brick fire walls running the entire length ofthe building. Each of these bays containsthree tracks and each track can accommodatethree cars. While all of the bays can be usedfor the storage of cars, two are designed forthat pur

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