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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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in a very short space oftime. The car shed, which is a rectangular building 220 ft. long,contains six lines of track and gives accommodation for thirty-five cars. The roof is of iron, in two spans, partly glazed andprovided with louveres, giving plenty of light and ventilation.Inspection pits run the whole length of the shed. At one end of the car shed is a well equipped work shop, con-taining screw cutting gap lathe, wheel lathe, wheel press anddrilling machines, the whole being driven by a 500-volt motor.A suitable smith shop, carpenter shop and paint shop are alsoprovided. Before the introduction of electric traction into Hong Kong,the popular ricksha drawn by a Chinese coolie was the prin-cipal means of locomotion, and of these nearly 2000 werelicensed for hire, in addition to a large number owned privately.Although rather slow, the ricksha is hard to beat for generalconvenience; the fight for supremacy between the out-of-date CAR STORAGE HOUSES VS. OPERATING BARNS BY D. F. CARVER
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MAIN ENGINE ROOM, CONTAINING 10-TON OVERHEAD CRANE ricksha and the new electric car will be of interest, but must ofnecessity end in the victory of the latter. As this is the pioneer system of electric traction in China, itis to be hoped the venture will meet with a well-deserved suc-cess, and that electrically-equipped lines will shortly be laid inother parts of the Celestial Empire. President Schoepf, of the Cincinnati Traction Company, saysthat during the past year the company expended $3,000,000 inbetterments, whereas under the terms of its lease it was neces-sary to spend only $2,000,000. He says the company has puton 50 per cent more cars since it took over the property twoyears ago, while the traffic has increased but 18 per cent. Fiftynew large cars have been ordered and are being installed.Plans are being made to enlarge some of the power stations toincrease the power facilities. Mr. Schoepf explains that Cin-cinnati is one of the hardest cities in the country in which togive

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