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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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ights, and Meakers registers,equip the cars. All motor cars carry two 20-horse-powerShorts single reduction motors. Dorner & Button trucks,and Bass Foundry wheels, are under the cars. lines loop out of this house, requiring no transfer table.The cars are all inspected at the house, no inspectorsbeing required on the road. The power house is an elegant structure 75 by 150feet. It is built of brick with stone trimmings, with asteel trussed roof covered with slate, and is as near abso-lutely fire-proof as could be made. It consists of a boiler-room 50 by 75 feet, and an engine room 75 by 100 feet.Here the floor is as clean as an office, no ashes are observ-able, no shovels, no pokers, no stokers, and the enquiringvisitors questions are solved by two words—natural gas.The gas comes into a meter or reservoir at 60 lbs. pres-sure, from a 6-inch pipe. Here this is reduced to enterthe furnaces at ten ounces, and, mixed with air, burnsfiercely. The lone man who manages the battery of six
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ENGINE ROOM. BOILER PLANT. The car house and repair shop, at the corner of Mainand Glasgow avenues, is built expresslj for use. Thebuilding fronts 120 feet and is 160 feet deep. The eastend is literally one great window, 52S panes of glassadmitting sunlight. Here are seven tracks and pits forcar inspection capable of holding thirty-five cars. Therepair shops have had so little work that the name isscarcely deserved. Seven men, including blacksmithsand painters, are all the work needs. In six months onlyone armature has required attention, and that but little,only a part of the winding having been burned. Mr.Robinson requires each car to be varnished annuall),and states that this custom keeps the paint in good condi-tion for a period of years. A Hathaway transfer tablegives the best of satisfaction. Everywhere 2^^-inch cot-ton fire hose is convenient and affords ample protection,nozzles being always attached. The two big Lewis &Fowler sweepers have here their lair, and to their cre

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