Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (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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current ft 1 di 1 bt ing tappi d lo tl• v wired every mile. 68 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol XII, No. 2. ncc between (own« Berkshire Street Ry. MilesAdams to Cheshire Cheshire to Berkshire 4.2 Berkshin to Pittsfield Pittsfield i Lenox 6.8 3.6 Lee to Stockbridge 5.7 Stockbridge to Gi ington Great Barrington to Sheffield 6.0 Sheffield to State Line 4.5 d 50J The car*hotue at Houaatonic is 1*0x32 ft extreme dimensions onthe urumfl line The front portion of the building has two trackswith pits f..r making inspection and minor repair (hi rear endof the building is partitioned IT and comprise mentioned elsewhere in this article The flooring in1 house is concrete 3 in, thick. Track Construction lite the (act that the road traverses an exceedingly hillycountry the maximum grade is but 5 per cent, locations having obtained partly on private right of wa) and parti)public highways. The road is laid with 70 lb I 1 ails in 30-ft.lengths on ties 0x7 in. x 8 ft long, spaced 2 ft. c to c. All joints
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1IAGRAM OK FEEDERS AND TROLLEY LINES. Car Houses. The system has two car houses, one accommodating 24 catPittsfield, and one accommodating three cars at Housatonic. The Pittsfield house is 12IN274 ft. on the ground line, and asshown on tlu plan, contains at one side the general executiveofficers and employes rooms. On tin opposite side are wagoniin and stable for tin- emergency wagon and other vehicles. Backof the stables are the sand and oil rooms. The six tracks in thebarn are all Straight-away ami are all pitted for making repairson trucks and equipments. Two of the tracks lead directly intor shop at the rear, and two lead into the paint shop. Thebuilding itself is of hrick with marble trimmings and is fully pro-tected by an automatic sprinkler system, are the Continuous rail joint with double No, oooo flexibleProtected bonds at each joint. The rails were supplied by the Pennsylvania Steel Co.. and allspecial work by Barbour-Stockwell Co nbridgeport, Rolling Stock. For tlie present

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