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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etail of Pits in Inspection Shtds and Machine Shop. of reinforced concrete supported on concrete girders; it hasa frontage of 375 feet on Riddle street and is 200 feet deep,and consists of 11 bays separated from each other by solidbrick walls having a single opening, which is a doorway 3feet wide by 6 feet 6 inches high, at the extreme rear of thebuilding. These openings between bays are protected by fireunderwriters double doors. Each bay is 35 feet wide be-tween the centers of the walls and excepting No. 11 eachcontains three tracks. No. 11 is equipped for a machineshop, with a blacksmith shop at the rear end. All the other and oiflce building and a four-track barn for woric cars, etc.The tracks in bays Nos. 1, 2 and 5, where there are nopits, are laid on ties with cinder concrete brought up tothe level of the rail and sloped slightly upward betweentracks. A Swiss Monorail. Switzerland now has a large number of electric thirdrail, rack-rail or trolley systems for mountain travel. An
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Brighton Car House. Cincinnati Traction Company—General Plan of Building and Track Connections. bays, except Nos. 1, 2 and 5, have pits under all the tracks,as shown in the plan view. The track rails are supported on8xl0-inch yellow pine timbers surmounting cross walls orpiers spaced 7 feet 6 inches between centers. As shown inthe cross-section of the pits, this leaves the entire spacebetween the two rails of the track clear. Between the tracksthe floor is of 2-inch yellow pine and is at the level of therail. In each bay there are four skylights 8x20 feet, coveredwith wired glass % inch thick. All tracks of the buildingare stub-tracks, with entrance from Riddle street. The ar- entirely novel form of mountain railway is in course of con-struction up the Wetterhorn, starting from the foot of theupper glacier at Grindelwald. This is an electrically-operatedelevated monorail, from which the car bodies are suspendedby means of running gear. The cable is stationary, thetractive effort bei

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