Identifier: streetrailwayjo301907newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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pan between poles is 220 ft., which is shortened glass. The building is 39 ft. 8 ins. x 44 ft. on the outsideand 29 ft. 10 ins. high from the top of the foundation to thetop of the parapet. The door sills and lintels are of con-crete blocks, and for architectural effect a belt of concreteblocks runs around the building, at the level of the windowsills. The parapet is also topped off with a coping of con-crete blocks. In the basement of the building are located one of thetransformer oil tanks and the oil pump. The main floor isdivided into three rooms, the main transformer room being43 ft. x 17 ft., and extending the full height of the structureto allow room for the high-tension bus-bars, which are car-ried over the transformers. The remaining space on themain floor is divided into a high-tension room (throughwhich the 60,000-volt wires enter, and which is the locationof the high-tension circuit breakers, 16 ft. 8 ins. x 19 ft.8 ins.) and the operating room, which is 19 ft. 8 ins. x 24
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PASSENGER TRAIN SHED, ROCHESTER TERMINAL, SHOWING OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION at curves where necessary. When crossing over the tracksof the Erie, or other railroads, recourse is had to a specialconstruction of No. o copper cables carried on steel towers,so reinforced by guys that it is impossible for a failure ofthe line to result in dropping the conductors across rail-road tracks. SUB-STATION BUILDING. The sub-station building is located in the Y formed by therailroad tracks at Avon, and together with the car shed, isadjacent to the roundhouse and division repair shop. Thewalls of the building are of brick, resting upon solid con-crete foundations, the roof and floors being of reinforcedconcrete. The floors are supported upon steel beams, butthe roof beams are of reinforced concrete, like the slabswhich they support. The building is absolutely fireproof, the doors and win-dows being of kalomein construction, and fitted with wire ft., where all the 11,000-volt switching apparatus and theme

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