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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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roof, sup-ported by steel trusses. The central portion contains the inspectionroom in front and the machine shop proper in the rear. Thereare two flat-roof wings, one containing the carpenter shop and The Western Ohio Railway was not one of those that over-looked the value of a good shop. Its layout at Wapakoneta,erected three years ago, is one of the best exclusively interur-ban shop in Ohio at the present time. The main portion is themachine shops proper. There are open concrete inspection pitswith a transfer table traveling across three tracks. There is anair hoist in the center for elevating one end of a car so thatthe trucks can be run off onto the transfer table and shifted toanother track for inspection and repairs. An extra set of trucksis kept on hand and the trucks are substituted so that a car isusually out of service only a very short time. A swinging cranecovers the transfer table, a wheel press and a large wheel lathefor turning steel-tire wheels. Among other tools are a
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&t. By- Journal CAR SHOPS AT ELYRIA, CLEVELAND & SOUTHWESTERN the paint shop and the other the mens locker room, offices andstorekeepers room, stock room, blacksmith shop, lamp room andsand and coal room. The building is admirably lighted with sky-lights over the wings and central section. There are four pit tracks for repairs in the main room, thepits being built of concrete. The pit tracks rest on 10-in. x1 2-in. sleepers, bolted through into anchors in the concrete. Oneside of the pit is hollowed out for heating pipes and wiring, andon this side the sleepers rest on concrete posts. Air hoists willbe provided adjoining the pits for elevating car bodies. One ofthe tracks is a wash track with a V-shaped section 1 0 ft. widewith a depth of 1 7 ins. below the rail in the center. The tracksrest on timber and concrete sleepers and the rails are boltedthrough into concrete, and the track is drained at a number ofpoints. The machine and carpenter-shop equipment will be ofthe most mo

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