Identifier: streetrailwayjo281906newy (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.
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ds, all installed in one room. On the completionof the building an additional 300-kw converter with necessary STREET RAILWAY J(JURx\AL. (\oi.. XXXIII. No. 8. auxiliary apparatus will be installed here. Plans provitlefor another sub-station of 300-kvv eapacity at Moran June-tion, another of similar eai)aeity beyond, and also at Perry. STATIONS In their eonstruction the stations at the i)rineipal townsfollow steam-road praetice. Three styles of buildings areemployed. One is a combined sub-station, passenger andfreight station, and this type will ultimately be erected atHerrold and other points where sub-stations are located.The second style of station is one built for passengers andfreight. The ofhces are located in the middle of the build-ing. A waiting room takes up one end, while the other isused for the storage of freight. A separate waiting room isprovided for ladies. The third type of station is that built at Granger and shownin one of the accompanying illustrations. It contains a
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MAXNKK OF COLTl.I.XG C.\U.S, HiK bPRIN(. BLMLKS AND IROTECTING ARM RAIL PERMITTING PASSAGE BETWEEN THE CARS freight room in one end, waiting room in the other, and anolifice between. The interiors of the stations are finished inGeorgia pine stained mission or black. The seats are of oakand are stained in a similar manner, and the floors are ofhardwood. A ceiled wainscoting extends around the roomsto a height f)f 5 ft. from the floor, and other than for thisthe walls and ceiling are plastered. YARDS IN TOWNSAt a convenient point in each of the principal towns for adistance of several hundred feet the right of way has beensecured 150 ft. wide. On one portion of each of these stripsvards will be laid out after plans which have already beendrawn up. These contemplate a passenger and freight sta-tion, stock yards, corn cribs, and other conveniences for car-ing for freight and shipping farm produce. The remainderof the strips will be reserved for the erection of grain ele- vators, commissio

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