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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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FICE BUILDING, STATION AND OPERATING QUARTERSAT FR.\MINGliAM JUNCTION pairs arc made al the car houses. The general repair shopis located at the south end of the Wellesley Hills car houseand it is served by two tracks which extend into it from thecar house proper for about 20 ft. Below the tracks is aspace for the storage of pipe fittings, normally covered by atrap door. This storage space is lighted by i6-cp incandes-cents mounted in asbestos-lined boxes, and the lamp wiringis run in iron conduit. The shop is rather crowded, onaccount of the rapid increase of business which the roadhas lately enjoyed. The machinery is all group-driven bya lo-hp; 36o-vo)t General Electric induction motor, and itincludes one Chandler & h^arquhar 40-in. engine lathe, oneFranklin portable crane for armature handling, one 150-tonSchaffer hydraulic wheel ))rcss, an ii-in. lathe, a Hendry6-in. speed lathe, a Hill, Clarke & Company double emerygrinder, one Wells screw-cutting machine, one Barnes ver-
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SNOW-PLOWS AND EXPRESS CAR IN FRONT OF THE WELLESLEY CAR HOUSE AND SHOPS Unlimited r(jund-trip tickets costing 70 cents are sold be-tween Chestnut Hill and the Worcester-Shrewslniry line atPark Square, Boston, Village Square, Brookline, ChestnutHill, Washington Square, Worcester, and Harrington Cor-ner, Worcester. Single fares are 40 cents each; in eithercase 10 cents is added in each direction for passengerstraveling via the Boston Elevated and Worcester Consoli-dated systems. The fare from Boston to the Wellesley andNatick line is 10 cents: to the Framingham Centre stationor to South Framingham, 20 cents; to Whites Corner, 25cents; and to Marlboro, 30 cents. tical drill, one Athol grindstone, one American twist drillgrinder, one Auburn grinder, one band saw, one 2-ton Har-rington hoist, one wheel-grinding machine, one Greenardarbor press and a home-made circular saw. The work done at the shops includes the operation of asmall brass foundry located in the basement of the armaturewind

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