The Street railway journal (1904) (14761788692)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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the front case also hot water will be used. The floors in this room aresloped to center drains under each of the two tracks enteringit, for facilitating the drainage of wash water. The machine shop, the stock room and the other auxiliaryrooms, including the car mens club and locker rooms, and alsothe sub-station rotary converter building adjacent, are locatedalong the east side of the car house, as shown in the accom-panying plan. Immediately at the front of the building is lo-cated the office of the division superintendent in charge ofoperation upon this district, while directly in the rear isthe sand room. Following this is the employees room, thelocker room, the club and reading room, and then the machineshop. The rotary converter sub-station occupies a space at therear of the club room, so that it is not directly connected withthe other buildings. THE MACHINE SHOPThe machine shop and stock room are, as shown, located toward the rear of the car house and at the east side, with win
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THE MACHINE SHOP AT THE NEW MONTCLAIR CAR HOUSE, SHOWING A MODEL MACHINE-TOOL EQUIPMENT FOR RUNNING REPAIRS and 100 ft. at the rear, which is the result of the peculiarlyshaped plot occupied. Seven tracks enter the house at thefront and diverge to nine at the rear, all being spaced to about9 ft. between centers. Ample lighting is provided by large windows, not only at thesides, but in the lantern above the roof trusses, which, togetherwith the effect produced by the white interior finish of thewalls, makes the room most convenient to work in. The roofstructure is of the steel-truss type, as shown in the view, thetrusses having clear span of 75 ft. and 100 ft. between walls.The trusses are spaced at 16 ft. centers, and are arranged togive 16 ft. of clear head room beneath the lower chords. The floor, in this as well as in the other rooms, is of con-crete, finished flush with the heads of the rails, to permittrucks to be easily rolled over them in transporting material.At one corner of