Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (find matches)
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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g theworkmen to stand in the pits outside the rails. The rails are laidon 8 X 8-in. oak stringers, supported by timbers of the same size,which are braced by 3 x 12-in. stays and secured by Yi-m. bolts..\ bed of concrete six inches deep forms the floors of these pits. The side walls are of brick, 12 in. thick. A flii,ht of brick stairs oflive steps is built at either end of the pits. A fireproof wall separates the storage barns from the machineshop. This shop is served by three tracks, with the two pits whichextend through the central portion of the room. Two of thesetracks extend through the paint shop, which is located at the rearof the machine shop. The paint shop is separated from the otherparts of the building by a brick partition and the openings over thetwo tracks arc closed by steel doors. The floor of the paint shop isof concrete, sloped for proper drainage, so that cars may be washedbefore being painted. The south bay of the Imilding comprises the several small shops /g9-6^ -
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portion of the- macliim- shop containing Ilit- repair tools.The front end of tlu hay is (hvidcl into stvi-ral oflicc rooms, adja-cent to which is tlif armature room. Reyoiirl the portion of theshop using machine tools is located the hlacksniith shop, the slockroom and the carpenter shop. The machine shop is equipped for handling repair work with anoverhead pneumatic hoist system. Over each of the two trackshaving wide pits is hung an I-heam. the lower Ranges of whichsupport the carriages of tlie pmiunalic hoists. An I-heam trackwayhnilt in the sliapc of a circle, .v ft. in diameter, is located near therear of this shop adjacent to the machine tools, so that trucks,motors, etc., which are to he repaired may he handled hy these hoistsand deposited near the machine tools l-Mr lioi^iiiis; pnrposi-« six

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