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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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SECTION OF 146TH STREET CAR IIOUSE, LOOKING WEST, AND SHOWING PITS ON TWO FLOORS ing will be followed out as far as possible in the construc-tion of the new one. The problem was a rather complicated one because, owingto the high price of real estate in New York, it is neces-sary to store cars on twa levels and also on account of theuse of conduit plows to equip each track with a pit. Sub-surface conductors are not used, however, in the car house,but current is taken from an overhead trolley with jumpers of which lead to two-car elevators. These elevators areinclosed in brick walls with automatic fire doors and havetheir machinery in fireproof inclosures. The transfer pitis 120 ft. back from the entrance, giving room on the en-trance tracks and stub tracks for two cars between thetransfer pit and the entrance. The oil rooms are on theground floor and, like the paint room, will be equipped withthe latest mechanical pumping and storage device to seciwe
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February 8, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 207 economy, fire protection and cleanliness. The rooms forthe starter, car house foreman, toilet for the car house andshop employees are also on the first floor. The store roomsand those for the conductors and motormen are on themezzanine floor, where there are also a barber shop, toilet,locker-rooms, etc., for employees only. The second floorcontains the general offices, receivers offices, shop lockers,etc., as shown on the plan. The shops are on the secondfloor and in the tower. One corner of the building is givenup for use as a sub-station. A cross section of the car house is presented on page 205and detail views of the second floor pit construction are

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