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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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s of other departments, and when the reportsdo not agree by having an inspection of the apparatus whichis reported at fault. 494 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXX. No. 14. NEW SHOPS AND CAR HOUSES AT KNOXVILLE-PRACT1CE -SHOP During April, 1906, the car repair department of theKnoxville Railway & Light Company moved into new-shops and car houses at the corner of Jasmine Street andSouth Fifth Avenue. Through the courtesy of C. H.Harvey, president and general manager of the system, itis possible to give the following details regarding theseshops. The buildings are of modern fireproof construc-tion in every detail, and the interior arrangement is particu-larly well suited for the maintenance of cars in cities offrom 40,000 to 60,000 people. The shops and the storage houses, between which thereis a common wall, have a total frontage of 138 ft. The shopmeasures 99 ft. 4 ins. front, and 178 ft. 4 ins. depth. Thehouses are 399 ft. deep. Both buildings are constructed of brick, on concrete
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FRONT VIEW OF KNOXVILLE REPAIR SHOPS AND STORAGE HOUSES foundations. The roofs are carried on steel framing. Allopenings are closed by Kinnear rolling steel doors, and thefloors are generally of concrete. With regard to main construction, the repair shop con-sists of three bays; a central one containing pit tracks; oneon the east, which serves as a carpenter and repair shop,and a bay on the opposite side utilized for blacksmith andmachine shops, winding room, toilet room and storeroom.The roof over all three bays is of the saw-tooth type, thatover the central one being considerably higher than theother two. A brick fire wall separates the carpenter and paint shopsfrom the repair tracks, and the bay containing these shopsis further divided at a point midway of its length by acorrugated iron partition fitted with Kinnear rolling steeldoors. Two tracks in the paint shop, which is in the frontportion, continue only to the partition. REPAIR TRACKS AND CRANESThe two tracks in the repair sho

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