Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (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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es with asbestospaint, \ct to be given, tiic early winter having inlerrnptcdthe work. The building was constructed after the plans ofMessrs. Fisher & Lawrie, architects, of Omaha. an<l is 12.;^fl. wide by 3S0 ft. long, covering ovvr an acre. In each of the bays are laid three tracks as shown in theplan, which in the aggregate give ,3,300 ft. of track storage,if will be remarked fnjm the plan that to three of tlic baysaccess is given by an entrance track and two switches. Thetracks of the f(jurth bay are reached by means of a transfertable. The three tracks to tiic north of the transfer tabic inthe west bay have the only track pits in tlic Ijarn ; tlic middletrack south of the transfer table is elevated 2 ft. aljovc thegeneral floor level and is the track where most of tlic workon trucks is done, tlie elevated track being generally moreconvenient than a pit. ihe first iiay west of the center linehas a cement floor for 60 ft. at the rear end, and the cars arewashed at this point.
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NEW CAR HOUSI-: ()M.\HA STREET RAILWAY CO. The walls are of brick, faced with red pressed brick, andtrinnned with sand stone, 17 in. thick at the sides and rearend, and 25 in. thick at the front end ; the side walls have 13-in. pilasters 19 ft. Syi in. center to center. In each wall panelbetween pilasters are two windows so that the building hasa light interior even when filled with cars. The front is fin-ished with terra cotta and the general appearance may beseen from the photographic view of the exterior. Threerows of posts divide the car house into four bays. The postsare of pine 12 x 12 in. and are spaced 19 ft. Syi in. center tocenter longitudinally. The roof trusses are of timber withiron rods and are shown in the sectional view of the build-ing; from the bottom of the truss to the rail is 16 ft. 6 in.The roof is of matched 2-in. sheating covered with five lay-ers of building felt and gravel. The work of washing cars and cleaning and adjustingtrucks has to be done in w-inter as

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