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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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pace betweenthe rails is planked over, except where room is left for pitwork. The floor is concreted, and has a pitch of 4 ins. to100 ft., this being sufficient to provide for drainage. The overhead conductors in the car house are steel Tbars, which are attached to the roof girders. This makesa very firm running surface for the trolley wheel, and onewhich is indestructible. For skylights the company is aa very large user of translucent fibre, a very light materialwhich reduces greatly the weight carried on the roof gird-ers. It allows plenty of light to pass through it, and atthe same time is unbreakable. The roof itself is the specialroofing of the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, by whom theentire structure was built. The company has also built on Vernon Street a largecar house of somewhat different design, which is shown inthe accompanying diagrams. This car house is of brick,with track on piers, as in the main car house. The roofgirders, however, are of wood, and include one span of 82
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CURB LINE Street Railway Joumal,N J. FIG. 3.—PLAN OF BUILDINGS-VERNON STREET in a galvanized iron tank, which is buried in the groundnear the car house. This tank has a capacity of 7 barrels,and when needed, oil is drawn from it by a hand pump.Underneath the pump is a drain, so that the waste oil runs September, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 575 back into the tank. The placing of the supply of oil under-ground avoids all danger of fire. employees roomsAbove the State Street car house are rooms devotedto the use of the conductors and motormen. They areespecially large and commodious, and include a meetingroom, occupied by a club composed of the employees of thecompany. The room contains a piano, billiard table, etc.The club is organized as a benefit association, and mem-bership in it is entirely voluntary. In the conductorsroom the tables, at which the conductors sort their change,are arranged with low cross partitions, so that when severalconductors use one table the coins do not b

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