Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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traveling cranes. Thereare two tracks in the shop, pitted so as to give access under-neath the cars. The repair shop contains the following machinery:Two 5-ton electric traveling cranes, hack saw, vertical and radialdrills, lathes, emery wheel, wheel grinding machine, shapingmachine, wheel borer and wheel press. The machinery in therepair shop will be driven by two motors, and the shop is fittedwith an oven heated by gas for drying armatures, etc.The carpenter shop is 66 ft. long x 32 ft. wide. It contains two 836 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XX. No. 21. tracks, and is equipped with the necessary woodworking ma-chinery for economically dealing with repairs and maintenance ofcars. It is not the Corporations intention at present to under-take the building of cars. The paint shop is the same length asthe carpenter shop, but is 27 ft. g1^ ins. wide, and has also twotracks. This, as well as the carpenter shop and repair shop, iswell heated with hot-water pipes. A blacksmiths shop with two
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INTERIOR OF BULWELL CAR HOUSE forges adjoins the repair shop, with convenient access from oneto the other. In the blacksmiths shop is the boiler for heatingthe building, and adjoining this shop is the sand drying furnace. At the back of the repair shop are situated the stores. On theground floor there are two store rooms, each 31 ft. 6 ins. x 30 ft.On the upper floor there is another store room 31 ft. 6 ins. x 30 ft.There are also oil stores, salt stores, carriage house, cart shed,stable for three horses and a residence for the superintendent incharge of the depot. The comforts of the men when off duty have been carefully andconsiderately looked after. Over one of the ground floor storesbefore mentioned there is a recreation room, supplied with papers, principle of having one huge car house to hold all the cars in use,but to have three or four at points near the termini, where landis cheap, and so that a large proportion of the cars can start theirjourneys immediately on leaving the h

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