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English: «Plan of offices, car barn and shops, Topeka Railway Co.» (original caption)

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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
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r cushion in a steel stand-pipe located in the end of the car barn. This standpipe is 32 ft. highand 3 ft. in diameter, and is connected with nine fire plugs locatedabout the yards. Each fire plug has a loo-ft. coil of 2.2-in. hosepermanently attached. Water for all uses about the yards and managed by a board of trustees composed of nine men; six employesand three oflicers of the company. This board of trustees also hascontrol of the affairs of the employes club rooms. The second story of the office building was built and is equippedespecially for the association. Here are provided billiard and pooltables, a well-filled reading table, cigar and tobacco stand, gym-nasium, shower bath and lockers. A nominal fee is charged for theuse of the billiard and pool tables and bath rooms, the money socollected becoming a part of the general funds of the benefit associa-tion. The association pays sick benefits of $7 per week for 15weeks, $10 per week for 10 weeks and a death benefit of $50. A re-
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PLAN OF OFFICES, CAR BARN AND SH0P.S, TOPEKA RAILWAY CO. buildings is drained from the different roofs to a 6,ooo-bbl. cisternbuilt of concrete under the paving in the yard between the carpenterand machine shops. The machine shop, as shown on tlie plan, contains a very completeequipment for the repair of trucks and the construction of specialtrack work. With the exception of a few intersections the com-pany has built practically all of its own special work in this ma-chine shop and with the present equipment has provided for econom-ically maintaining its own special work. In the front of the yard enclosure are the emergency station andthe general oflice building. This latter building is 40 x 60 ft. in size serve fund of $200 is kept, and should this fund be decreased by thepayment of benefits, each member is assessed 30 cents per monthuntil the fund is again complete. For every dollar paid by the men,the company contributes a like amount, which decreases the numberof assessments to fi

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(anon.): “Topeka Railway Company” The Street Railway Review XV:11 (1905.11.15): p.792

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