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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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v^•;^^• nx ioast l.vkio t.ink. morning. 1 he height from top of rail to under side of roof trussesis 18 ft. Nine tracks extend tlie entire length of the building andone track runs half through, this trackage being siiflicient to holdone hundred of the largest cars. The walls of the building areof red pressed brick laid with red mortar, surmounted by a pitchand tar composition roof supported on steel roof trusses. The floorbetween the tracks is of rolled cinders, rendering it practically thesame as concrete and considerably less expensive. The pit flooris of concrete, and the pit space is eight tracks wide and 160 ft.long, the tracks being carried on pipe track supports. An unique
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C.\n liniTSE AT THinn AVE. AST> lOTH ST. The standard trolley wire is No. 000 grooved section, which barbeen found to ix the most serviceable of any used. Car Barn and Shops. Until I9t>;j the tars were stored and repairs made at no lessthan five diflferent barm and shops. This arose from the fact thateach road operating in Birmingham had its own shop, which was feature oi the pipe track construction is that there are no bracesor girders used, and access throughout the pit from track to trackis thus made possible without coming out of it, the whole pit spacebeing unobstructed except by the track supports. This is veryconvenient and snmcwhal luniiual. Two tracks nearest the wall arcdesigned for washing cars and have sloped floors. Hose connec-tions are arranged at frequent intervals and all the appliances for 228 STREET RAILWAY REVICW. I Vol. XIV. No. 4 thorough and rapid washing arc (o be fotiiul at ihii poiiu. The com-pany prides itself on the remarkably clean appearance of its

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