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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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of small shops, acquiredthrough consolidation with other systems, but wished to con-centrate the work at one point. Accordingly after a careful The huiklings lie on eitlier side of Mitchell avenue and areseparated by cross streets giving good light and fire protec-tion as well. The Spring Grove avenue fronts of the paintshop and ear house are shown in one of ihe illustrations.lieing llie ones most seen by the public tlie\ ha\c castellatedtowers at the corners and imposing arciud doorwa\s at thecar tracks. Beginning at the soutli l-\\i\ the thst of the Imildings onwest side of Mitcliell a\ enue is the jiaint shop, a Iniilding205 ft. wide and 325 ft. long on the longest side. Thebuilding has 12 tracks. The floor is of cement except wherethe rail heads show themselves. On the south side are tlieoil room where the paints are mixed and a room for theheating apparatus. The office building joins the paint shopon the southwest corner. North of the paint shop is a large building 37S x 205 ft.
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IF THE CINtINNATI STREET RAILWAY COMlANV. examination of several ear works the present plant wasbuilt. It has a capacity for overhauling and repairing 500or 600 cars in the four months that open cars are in serviceand of course an equal number of closed ears are cared forduring the winter months. In addition the company willbinltl its own cars. Work was liegun at the shops on Feb-ruary I:;. Work on the plans was begun in the fall of 1895, ** ^^the Chester Park athletic grounds were to be opened inMay, 1896, the generating station was the first to be com-pleted. The generating station is located at the north endof the plant on the tracks of the Cincinnati, Hamilton <.VDayton Railroad, so that coal is delivered to the boiler roomin cars. The V)uilding is of brick with stone trimmings andis the only brick building on the grounds. The bailer plant comprises five 72-in. x 18-ft. tubular boil-ers, equipped with Murphy furnaces. The engines are ofthe llamilton-corliss type by the Ilooven,

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