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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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120 ft. and a maximum lengthof 330 ft. 9 ins., the car section being now no ft. 3 ins. be-yond the present shop division to secure storage capacityfor thirty-two cars 51 ft. 4 ins. long. June 15, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1061 Concrete is used throughout in theconstruction of the walls, floors and roof.The roof varies in thickness from 5 ins.to 6 ins. It is longitudinally reinforcedwith j4-in. diameter rods 20 ft. longspaced 5-in. centers and transversely re-inforced by i4-in bars of the same lengthand spaced 12 ins. centers. The con-crete and reinforcement are turned upseveral inches at the skylights. The lat-ter are 8 ft. wide and are regulated fromthe floor by chains. The intermediate roof beams are car-ried on two sets of 12-in. columns. Theyare 4 ft. deep throughout, but in the shopor overhauling section are 15 ins. wide,or 3 ins. more than the beams in theoffice and car sections, to enable themto carry weights as high as 42 tons im-posed through the rails of the crane run-
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THE VILLA NOVA STATION, WITH TYPICAL FOOT-BRIDGE

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