Identifier: electricrailwayr162amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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build another platform along this wallto which wagons could secure access from the alley bound-ing the property on the east. Reference to the plan showsthe arrangement of the four tracks which loop through thetrainshed and the two spur tracks which give access to the-freight house. The main floor of the passenger station building has October, Uj06. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW (529 five storerooms on the north and west sides, through all ofwhich there is access to the waiting room proper. At thesouth end of the waiting room is the ticket office. In thebasement at the south end is located the boiler room forsupplying steam heat to the building and also the toiletand retiring rooms; access to the mens and womens roomsis by separate stairways. The entire second floor of the BRAKES AND BRAKING.* illAUAAf, SUPEIHNTENDENT OF CAR EQUIPMENT, INTERNA-TIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY, BUFFALO, N. Y. The questions of what is the proper system of brakesto use and how to apply thorn on the heavy four-motor cars
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Indi ction Company—Floor Plans of Muncie Termi building has been leased to the Central Union TelephoneCompany for its Muncie exchange and office purposes. The freight house is two stories in height. At the westend of the first floor is a room for the handling of bag-gage, the rest of this floor being for freight. The secondfloor is arranged for the offices of the train dispatcher, thelocal superintendent and rooms for the trainmen, whichincludes space for lockers, shower baths, etc. The architect for the building was Mr. Alfred Grindle.of Muncie, Ind., and the general contract was let to J. B.Snyder, of Muncie. The Indiana Bridge Company was sub-contractor for the structural steel work in the trainshed. that are bein.i; built today for both city and interurbanservice, and principally operated as single cars, are of greatimportance and are worthy of the attention of all streetrailway cor.ipanies. During the evolution of the street car brake, as in thecase of nearly every mechanical a

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