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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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rthem and Pennsylvania railroads, also by the lineof the Cincinnati Traction Co. The buildings were designed byBert Baldwin & Co.. architects and engineers, of New York andCincinnati. The plant comprises three brick buildings, two of which are two tool room and template storage room are first entered, next to whichis the erecting and machine floor room, 125 ft. by 260 ft., with acement concrete floor, as have also the drill press, engine, filter andboiler rooms. On this floor are the planers, .straightening m.ichines,and some special machines, which are served by two electric cranes,one used principally to unload and load cars, the second to supplythe erecting floor and machines with material from the stock depart-ment. Beyond the erecting floor is the stock department, into whichend of the building is brought the railroad track, wliich holds tencars. This track is set low enough to bring the car floor even withthe level of the shop floor. The stock department is 60 ft. by 400 ft.
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SCENES IN THE NEW IL.XNT OF TIIK WEIK FUOG CO., CINCINNATI. >torics in height, 40 ft. by 60 ft., one used for general offices anddrafting room, and the other uicd for mens wash and locker roomson the first floor and pattern shop and storage on the floor above.Ilach of these building* is connected to the main shop by coveredpassageways. The main shop is a one story building 125x662 ft.,giving nearly H3J000 sq. fl, under roof. It is heated by the AmericanBlower Co. and the Webster vacuum system, using exhaust steamfrom the engine. The roof is carried by steel trusses supported onsteel columns. The light comes from the windows in the side walls,which arc set about 6 ft, af»ovc the floor, from the four skylightsin the roof, and from the side windows above the roofs of the sidebays. In entering the main shop from the office building, the shop office, and is enclosed by a fence. I he heavy uKileriiil, such as rails, platesand bars, are piled on the floor, while the small supplies, liker

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