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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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have been used in grading. Close to the propertyruns Roaring Brook, a stream which, about 5 miles further up,serves in part as a source of water supply to the city ofScranton. Two reservoirs are formed by dams on this prop-erty, and the water thus conserved is utilized about the yard.An i8-in. water main, starting at the upper reservoir, runsthrough the full length of the yard, and is tapped at intervalsto serve feed water to the power plant and fire protection atother points. A water main from the city also enters thegrounds and supplies water for these and other purposes. Four principal buildings occupying this property are de-voted to the operation of the railroad, namely, the passengerstation, the freight depot, the power house and the car houseand repair shop. These buildings were not limited in size bythe encroachment of any others or by the service of otherdepartments in the organization of the road, and, consequently,are ample in their design, not only for the present but for
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LOOP AT THE SCRAN TON 1A.SS1-:Ni; ICl< .S IATION future development, and the possibilities have also l)ecn con-sidered of further extensions. In design they may be describedarchitecturally as an adaptation of the Tudor-Gothic type, and

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