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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 twobays, and a repair shop building 50 ft. x 375 ft., with wingscontaining a blacksmith shop, storeroom, winding room andsteam heating plant. All of these buildings cover an area of53,000 sq. ft. They are constructed entirely of reinforced con-crete, and are perhaps the first example of structures of thiskind in which this method has been used in practically every machine shop portion will be served by a 44-ft. electric crane,furnished by the Cleveland Crane & Car Company, of sufficientcapacity to raise an entire car body. This crane also has move-ment speeds which will make it useful in serving the machinetools. The latter are placed along the south wall, and since thecenter of No. 1 track is 22 ft. from the center line of this wall,sufficient space is given for the tools and for handling the workaround them. The two tracks through the shop are spaced 15ft. center to center, and as the No. 2 track is 10 ft. from thecentral line of the north wall, ample space is given between *
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332 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVI. No. 10. and around cars for getting at all parts. The trolley wire isplaced directly over the center of the tracks, and is 22 ft. fromthe floor, giving just sufficient room for the operation of the

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