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Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy (find matches)
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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The drainage and pitlighting also follow theHarmon practice. Fireprotection is securedby outside fire hy-drants, inside hose con-nections, chemical ex-tinguishers, dry powderextinguisher and firepails. There will alsobe the same stand-pipes and roof laddersas at Harmon. Aside from the coiland fan room men-tioned later in connec-tion with the heating,the facilities roomscomprise offices, astoreroom, small ma-chine shop and black-smith shop, employeeslocker room and toilets. This section is built in the same style as the inspection shed,except that a lo-in. cinder floor replaces concrete in theblacksmith shop, and in the offices a pine floor is laid overthe concrete on 3-in. x 4-in. sleepers. The relative locationand size of these rooms is shown on page 1027. For the lighting and power equipment of the inspection All of the electrical equipment is controlled from a switch-board in the power station. The control switches for dif-ferent parts of the installation are mounted in slate-lined
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A VIEW TAKEN IN THE MACHINE SHOP DURING THE INSTALLATION PERIOD cabinets. In all, there are about 400 i6-cp incandescentlamps, sixteen inside arc lamps with inverted concentricdififusers, and eleven outside arcs. The steam and compressed air lines are carried over tothe new plant in a buried rectangular wooden conduitbuilt up of 4-in. yellow pine planks waterproofed with

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