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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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or circuit and stops the machinery until theline potential returns, when it automatically starts the motor, cuttingnut resistance gradually as the motor speeds up, until the machineryis again operating at full speed. The shafting in the carpenter shop is hung from wooden stringerswhich in turn are fastened to the girders of the roof trusses. Alongthe west side of the carpenter shop a bench is run beneath thewindows, for work requiring varnishing, planing and chiselling. All the departments are equipped with an automatic sprinklingsystem. The water supply for this system is stored in a 10,000 gallonwooden tank supported on a steel tower just south of the old StJohn St. car house, between the new building and the old. Thesprinkler installation is very complete. The buildings are also pro-tected by hand fire extinguishers, a special fire alarm box and liumer-.ous hydrants in the yards. The departments of both the car houseand shops are connected by an inter-communicating teleplmne system
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FLOOR PLAN OF PORTLAND RAILROAD Cos SHOP BUILDING AND CROSS SECTION AT REAR END. night by four enclosed arc lamps and incandesceuts arranged on theseries system with 500-volt circuits. The trolley over the singletrack which serves this room is protected from contact with thesteel trusses by a wooden trough and the track is provided with apit. The walls are painted a light yellow with a dark green dadoextending about 5 ft. above the floor. Between the track and thewall nearest it a row of 16-c. p. incandescent lamps is hung, onefrom each truss, 9 ft. apart. These lamps are of much help-inlighting the carpenter shop passageway and the sides of the carsnext the division wall. The lighting circuits in the room are con-trolled by switches mounted on a wooden panel covered with asbes-tos. This panel is mounted upon the wall at the north entrance ofthe room. The machinery in the carpenter shop is all driven on the groupplan by a 30-h. p. G. E. 500-volt shunt motor making 1025 r. p. m.At pres

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