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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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osed of inlaid tiles, while in the armature winding room,a concrete mixture has been used mi the floor as in the remaindercf the building. Forty-seven windows have been placed in thesecond story and skylight- have been added in order that thebuilding may be well lighted. Ventilation has been inby circular tran-oms placed in the gable ends. With the excep-1 hi of the oak mop-board in the office and .he outside doors.-iid window Frames, nothing of an inflammable nature ha;used in the entire construction As an additional precaution fire plugs with two inch taps direct - 220 STREET RAILWAY RES IKW (Vol. XVI, No. 4. connected to the city water mains have been installed at conven-ient points about the building, as indicated on (he accompanyingUoir plan. The pressure in these mains is 65 lb. Reels of fire The Binghamton Railway Co. operates 32 miles of track. \\ tlithe exception of a distance of two miles between Binghamton andEndicott, the track has all been relaid with new rails during the
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN OF THE NEW CAR HOUSE—BINGHAMTUN RAILWAY CO hose of sufficient length to reach to all parts of the building, areplaced near each tap and are always ready for immediate use.The cost of installing this system was nominal compared with othersystems, and the company considers it very effective in gettingat the seat of the trouble in case of accidental fire. The heating system of the building has been carefully laid outand is the work of the firm of Shapley & Wells, of Binghamton,who also furnished the hydraulic hoists. The steam supply forheating purposes is obtained directly from the headers in the en-gine room under a pressure of 120 lb. The steam is led fromthe boiler room under the floor of the engine room to the base-ment walls. Here it passes into the ground and through a tileconduit covered with asbestos to the new building Upon enter-ing the shops the main is carried to the top of the building wherethe steam passes through a reducing valve. By means of thisva

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