Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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treet Rv.Journa PLAN AND SIDE ELEVATION OF JOINT plied some poles, and R. W. Blackwell & Co. have also suppliedsome poles and fittings. Where the road is sufficiently widecenter poles have been adopted, as shown in one of the engrav-ings. Elsewhere span and single bracket construction has beenemployed. The car house at Sherwood was illustrated in the previousarticle; another car house has been erected at Bulwell, which is284 ft. long and 77 ft. wide, and will accommodate forty cars. Thisbuilding was built in remarkably quick time, only twelve weeksbeing occupied in its construction. The car house and repair ing the building is a two-story office, and on the left-hand side amess room and conveniences for motormen and conductors. Atthe other end of the building is a transfer table. All of the trackspace is pitted, and is admirably adapted for its purpose. Adjoining the car house is a repair shop for motors, etc., 120ft. x 63 ft., roofed over in two bays, each 31 ft. 6 ins. span. The
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END VIEW OF LARGE SPECIAL WORK height from the rail level to springing of roof is 24 ft. 6 ins., and19 ft. from rail level of shop to rail level of traveling cranes. Thereare two tracks in the shop, pitted so as to give access under-neath the cars. The repair shop contains the following machinery:Two 5-ton electric traveling cranes, hack saw, vertical and radialdrills, lathes, emery wheel, wheel grinding machine, shapingmachine, wheel borer and wheel press. The machinery in therepair shop will be driven by two motors, and the shop is fittedwith an oven heated by gas for drying armatures, etc.The carpenter shop is 66 ft. long x 32 ft. wide. It contains two 836 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XX. No. 21. tracks, and is equipped with the necessary woodworking ma-chinery for economically dealing with repairs and maintenance ofcars. It is not the Corporations intention at present to under-take the building of cars. The paint shop is the same length asthe carpenter shop, but is 27 ft. g1^ ins

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