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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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ft.back in the house. Arrangements were being perfected to runthe car out when the shoe, or plow, which makes contactwith the underground conductors, in some way short circuitedthe two conductors, causing a blaze. The arc occasioned bythis short circuit immediately set fire to the car. It is asserted that not over a five-minute delay was occas-ioned between the time of the discovery of the fire and thegiving of the alarm. The firemen arrived almost immediately after the alarmwas sounded, but were afraid to go into the building until as-sured that all current was turned off. This delayed somewhatthe application of the water, and practically all the firemenwere able to do was to save the complete destruction of thethree-story office section. 474 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVII. No. 12. SHOWER BATHS FOR THE MEN The Galveston Electric Company, of Galveston, Tex., ofwhich H. S. Cooper is general manager, has recently installeda number of shower baths at one of its older car houses. De-
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Street and the other at the Kingsway—Aldwych junction—are only 16 ft. below the street. The subway is built withsteel girders and is faced with white bricks throughout. In-candescent lamps are used for its illumination. The rolling stock is of the single-deck type, constructed ofnon-inflammable material throughout. The first lot of six-teen was built by Dick, Kerr & Company, after the designsof A. L. C. Fell, the manager of the tramways. The prin-cipal dimensions are: Length over all, 33 ft. 6 ins.; widthover all, 6 ft. 10 ins.; height, 10 ft. n)4 ns-! and length ofthe platforms, 3 ft. 8)/j ins. The cars seat thirty-six pas-sengers each. The main floor is constructed of rolled steelangle and channel bars, with steel knees and gussets. Theside posts are built up of two channel bars placed back toback, supporting the angle steel cant rail and the steel carlines. The roofing is of mild steel plate. The interior finishconsists of aluminum sheet panels and mouldings. The flooris ma

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