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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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resque scenery. There is a largelake, affording boating and bathing, and a large dancing pa-vilion and dining room are among the attractions. The man-agement caters only to the best class of people, and the parkis used primarily for picnics and evening trolley parties. Tick-ets are sold over both roads bearing coupons for admission tothe park, and both roads have arrangements for furnishingspecial cars, with exclusive use of the dancing pavilion. In planning for the power station for the Springfield, Troy& Piqua Railway, several circumstances made it inadvisable tofollow the usual practice of placing it near the center of theline. The Springfield & Xenia Railway had no power stationof its own, and it was thought probable that other roads wouldbe built from Springfield which would require power. Excel-lent water supply and fueling facilities were available atSpringfield, and a location was obtained at the crossing of theErie and the Detroit Southern, where connections were made
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POMPEYS PILLAR IN NEFF PARK with both roads. The site faces Snyder Park, and GeneralBushnell decided on an ornamental building that should be inharmony with its surroundings. It is built of machine-madebrick, with red mortar and sand-stone trimmings. The roofis tile, with 1^2-in. roofing sheeting and roofing felt, with moni-tor construction resting on structural steel trusses. There arenumerous ventilators, with transom-operating devices. Thecornices are galvanized iron, and all gutters and down-spoutsare copper. The flooring is all concrete on expanded metal,and the foundations are stone and concrete. There are numer-ous steel columns in the walls, and the crane beams are sup-ported on steel columns. A 20-ton 60-ft. span crane, built by 124 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 4. the Case Manufacturing Company, of Columbus, covers theengine room. The coal bunkers at the side of the house are 75 ft. x 20 ft. x 20 ft. high, having a capacity of 600 tons, andare reached by a timber t

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