Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (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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plant against damage fromlloods, and therefore especial attention had to be given to making ground and 80 ft. above the river; the trestles are of I2xi2-in.posts, four to a bent, with the bents 14 ft. 8 in. between centers. Provision had to be made for taking coal from barges in theriver as well as from cars delivered by rail. The design for thecoal handling installation has not been definitely determined, but acrane with clamshell bucket will probably be used for unloadingfrom barges, and cars drawn by electric locomotives for trans-ferring to the storage piles. The building is of brick with stone trimmings, with the roof ofexpanded metal and concrete, laid on steel purlines and coveredwith Warren-Ehret patent gravel roofing. The foundations forbuilding and machinery are of cement coi^rete and are carried downto a gravel bottom; the concrete used is of the proportion of i partcement, ^Yz parts sand and 5 parts broken stone. The bailding is 402 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XV. No. 7.
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Jui.y IS, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 403

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