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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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e rails rest on 10X i2-in. stringers carried on and anchored to brick piersbuilt at intervals 14 ft. 8^4 in. The flooring between thepit tracks and on the other side of the building is of 2-in.oak. The pit itself is floored with brick at the level of 4 ft. 5 in. below the bottom of the track rail. At the front endare seven pairs of double doors hung to the side walls and13-in. I-beams, and these constitute the front wall. Thedoors are iS ft. high ; above them the end wall is of brick,resting on two 12-in. I-beams carried on the I-beam posts. The barn is heated throughout by steam. The repairs aresimply of a general nature as the management does notconsider it advisable to do any manufacturing. The machineshop is also used for making repairs for the Electric Light 6 Power Company and the Lawrence Gas Company, bothbeing under the same management as the Traction Com-pany. In the roadbed construction, blast furnace cinders wereused ; the cinders have been rolled into a bed 6 in. in thick-
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POWER STATION, NEW CASTLE TRACTION COMPANY. ^tiedS^culu^i\%vlcW 817 ness. The ties were spaced 2 ft. between centers and con-crete tilled in between them. There are i6 miles of So-lb.,6o-ft. girder rails in the city, and four miles of 70-lb., T-railson the private right of way to Cascade Park. The Parkline was constructed at great cost in order to keep the gradesbelow 1.5 per cent. One large cut required the removal of70,000 cu. yds. of material and one fill had to be made 30 ft.high and 900 ft. long. The girder rails and the special workwere made by the Johnson Company, and the steam roadspecial work was constructed bv the Cleveland Frog & 1,000 ft. are lightning arresters, made by the General Elec-tric Compan). The rolling stock consists of 10 vestibule cars, with i6-ft.bodies, and 20 nine-bench open cars and five i6-ft. vestibulecars, all mounted on McGuire Columbia trucks; a sweeperand a sprinkler. The cars are equipped with Westinghouse12 A, 30-h. p. motors and G. E. B-3 cont

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