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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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only been com- ated are specially conwniont and are, we believe, in some respectsunique. M each of the 27 sliding doors along this side of thebuilding is a track, over the cenler of which is a channel ironforming a continuation of the trolley wire, which extends out tomeet a similar chaniu-l lainning across the l l^ transfer table.These chainiel irons arc slightly flared where ihcy come together,so as to avoid any possibility of the trolley jumping off at thejunction. A trolley wire, from which the transfer table is operated,runs along the top of the channels ,)n the building at their outeredge and is fastened on top of each clianncl by means of an ordi-nary trolley ear, which is inverted and fastened upon ilu- channeliron. The transfer table trolley consists of two short arms runningon top of this trolley wire, which arc hinged together, forming aninverted V. and the two arms are comiected by springs, whichsecure the necessary tension between the trolley wheel and the wire.
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u Ar.iiN(; ONK SIDE OF SHOI sll(i\VI.N(; -IK A NSIKK TAIII.F., pitted a short time, and the machmery, winch has been installedhut about six weeks, was largely taken from nine other shops scatlered about different parts of the city, all but two of whichhave been since atandoned as repair shops, this concentrating allthe work at one central point. The two other remaining shops willal.o be abandoned as soon as the rush of special work preparatoryto the Worlds Fair next summer has been finished. The new shop building is a large rectangular brick structure, 432ft. long and 165 ft. wide, the general appearance of which is shownin the accompanying illustration. The r«.f, which is rather low.i^ of the saw-tooth pattern, which permits of rows of windowsrunning crosswise of the buil.ling, thus securing an even distributionof light over in whole area. On one side of the building are threeparallel tracks on which two long transfer tables capable r,f carryingthe largest size cars travel, and thes

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