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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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ever be possible to build an idealshop for street railway work to meet all conditions. Local sur-roundings must necessarily govern to a certain extent the plansand construction of such a building, and the details of arrange-ment for the various departments and the necessary apparatus andfittings, must vary according to the different methods employed indoing the work on different roads. So it appears that in the faceof.these varying conditions, we can only consider under the headof The Ideal Shop a general plan for its lay-out, subject tochanges which the local conditions would make necessary. Infact, the subject of this article might have been more properly:A Few Suggestions for an Ideal Shop. In the first place, Let there be light, as it was in the begin-ning. This matter should have due consideration from the be-ginning to the end of the plans. Daylight is one of the greatestblessings we enjoy. Why shut it out? It costs nothing, and we 7Q4 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 16.
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PLAN OF MODEL SHOP October 15, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 705 cannot have too much of it in our shop if it is of the right quality.Men can do more work and better work because of it, and anyextra expense incurred to obtain abundance of good light in aworkshop is money well spent. To this end, I think all will agree, that the ideal shop shouldconsist of a building or buildings one story high. As shown in the accompanying general plan and section of anarrangement of buildings which appeals to me as one that wouldbe convenient, light and reasonable in cost, and which I submitfor your consideration and criticism, the shop consists of two one-story buildings on either side of a transfer track. This plan islaid out regardless of size or shape of lot, although this conditionwe will probably never enjoy in actual practice. I should prefera depth of building sufficient to accommodate two double-truck,or three single-truck cars on a track, which would permit of shift-ing a car without distu

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