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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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eir size.The pits are of the open type, the track being supported onconcrete piers as shown in an accompanying illustration.The shop is supplied with compressed air for blowing outmotors from the compressor used in connection with thesprinkler system. It is heated by a steam heater in the for controlling the lighting circuits in the building and thelighting transformers. THE LOOP AREAWAY The loop areaway has a concrete floor and its roof struc-ture is contiguous with, and is of the same construction as,that of the storage bays. The track openings are not pro-vided with doors. Both openings were purposely made tothe west, with the idea of avoiding draughts through theareaway. In one corner is a fireproof room for the stor-age of oils used in the barn. THE TOWER The tower was built primarily for enclosing the tank usedas a reserve in connection with the sprinkler system.Nevertheless, it adds considerably to the appearance of thebuilding. The tank of 50,000 gallons capacity is located in
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GENERAL VIEW OF THE CENTRAL BAY BETWEEN THE TRANSFER TABLES, SHOWING ALSO THE PROTECTED TROLLEYFOR THE TRANSFER TABLE AND THE CONSTRUCTION AT THE ENDS OF THE PITS basement. The two entering doors are of the Kinnearrolling steel hand-operated type. THE OFFICE SECTION The office section is a two-story structure and, like the re-mainder of the car house, has concrete floors. A small roomon the second floor is used for storage of material and atermirial storage battery may at a future time be installedin the one room which takes up the greater portion of thesecond floor. The lower floor contains a superintendentsoffice surrounded by a conductors room, a small terminalwaiting room, receivers office and vault, an alcove in therear of the receivers office for lost articles and toilet rooms.All the rooms have plaster walls and are finished in yellowpine. The conductors room is provided with tables formaking out reports and with expanded metal clothes lockers.The basement contains a boiler for

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