The Street railway journal (1904) (14574950768)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (find matches)

Title: The Street railway journal

Year: 1884 (1880s)

Authors:

Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation

Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Text Appearing Before Image:

x parallel tracksspaced 17 ft. apart on centers, each.The floor throughout will be of ce-ment, as will the sides of the pitsand the steps leading into them.This floor will be 7 ins. thick, re-inforced by steel rods or other ap-proved construction, and will besupported by round columns ofcast iron 5 ins. in diameter. Thepits will be 4 ft. 2 ins. deep, andwill be drained to 4-in. x 8-in. gut-ters leading to the sewer connec-tions. The foundations of the floorsupporting columns will be of con-crete in two courses, each 1 ft. deepand 2 ft. wide. Fig. 4 illustratesthe pit room in cross section. Anelectric traveling crane will servethis room. Access can be had tothe pits by four sets of parallelstairways, two of which are locatedat the center and one at each endof every pit. Three pathways, each6 ft. wide, are provided for transitacross the pit room. It has notbeen settled yet whether the cranerunway will be supported on steelI-beams or reinforced concrete. The entire length of the building

Text Appearing After Image:

iiimiiinii -Si Plat ioi 111 gjfjjjl Gallery in Train Mens Roomopen rrm mri nrn rmi mn Property Line STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 9.

the street railway journal 1904 book illustrations street railways transportation industrial history light railway electrified trams electric power electric railroads high resolution images from internet archive

1904

Smithsonian Libraries

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

public domain