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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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nd, Ohio, was re-cently moved from the west entrance of the Williamson Building toa room on the south side of the square west of Ontario. All of theintcrurbans are now running around the southwest corner of thesquare, with the exception of the Northern Ohio Traction & LightCo. cars. Mill Construction Car House and Office at Bristol. The Bristol & Plainville Tramway Co., which, in addition to light-ing and power business, operates about 13 miles of single track elec-tric railway in the vicinity of Bristol. Conn., is building a new carhouse and office building which are interesting inasmuch as the prin-ciples of slow burning mill construction have been applied througli- The rectangular building, comprising the car house, is divided intotwo sections by a u in. brick wall down the center. The outsidewalls are of brick, resting on stone foundations. Each of the two sections of the house contain four tracks, runningthe full length of the buililing, one section being dcsi.gned for an
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SECTION THROVt^n lAK HOUSE. out. Tlie possibilities and advantages of applying mill constructionprinciples to electric railway car houses were pointed out in an article,contributed by Mr. J. O. De Wolf of W. B. Smith-Whaley & Co..published in the .Street Railway Review for .\ug 20, igo.^ Theprinciples as outlined in that ariicic wilh the exception of niimir operating barn and the other for combined storage and repair work.The operating side has a cement-concrele floor and will bo usedchiefly for storing cars over night and for inspection and light repairwork. The other section will he used for storage. Twoiif the tracks in llic opcTaling section arc pit tracks, the rails

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