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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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c Railway Company, under the auspices of theCleveland Electric Railway Company and the National FireProtection Association. The car house is 96 ft. x 456 ft., andis constructed of 12-in. brick walls between brick pilasters,which are spaced 16 ft. center to center. There are large win-dows between the pilasters and one large door at the north end,while the south end is entirely open. The roof is of gravel andcomposition, on wood sheathing, and about half of it is sup-ported by wooden trestles. The rest of the roof is supportedby wooden posts spaced 16 ft. center to center in three rows.The car house has a capacity for eighty cars. The car house was equipped throughout with the Grinnelldry-pipe system and automatic sprinkling heads. In additionto a regular ceiling equipment there was one line of sprinklersover each aisle between tracks and between tracks and sidewalls. The height of these aisle line sprinklers averaged 8 ft.10 ins., or about 4 ins. below the top of glass in car windows.
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The summer schedules of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com-pany went into effect Saturday, May 6. All of he lines thatrun to the beaches were put into operation on the date men-tioned, and the schedule on the lines that run to the shore theyear around was increased. The following surface lines run toConey Island: Third Avenue, Court Street, Vanderbilt Ave-nue, Fifteenth Street, Reid Avenue, Tompkins-Lorinier andUnion Street. The motor trains to Coney Island are the WestEnd, the Sea Beach and the Brighton Beach lines. The ser-vice on the latter has been increased so that trains run on aheadway of fifteen minutes. The Sea Beach expresses run fromPark Row to Coney Islantl every twenty minutes a greaterpart of the day and evening. Special schedules are arrangedfor Saturdays and holidays. IXTERIUR OF CAR HOUSE FROM SOUTH END, SHOWING SIDE AND ROOF SPRINKLER.S except the lines on either side of car used in test No. 4. Theaisle sprinklers were spaced 6 ft. apart, not counting the repairshop, off

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