. The Street railway journal . manufacturing city of Cleveland than the plant which this com-pany has established at Collinwood, eight miles from the centerof the city, on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railwaytracks. Thirty-one acres are included in the site purchased by thecompany, and twelve and one-half acres are already under thecover of seven immense buildings recently completed. Even with-these extensive facilities the company finds itself somewhatcramped for space and plans are already being made to extend oneof the largest buildings. There are 3 miles of tracks in and aroundthe pl
. The Street railway journal . manufacturing city of Cleveland than the plant which this com-pany has established at Collinwood, eight miles from the centerof the city, on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railwaytracks. Thirty-one acres are included in the site purchased by thecompany, and twelve and one-half acres are already under thecover of seven immense buildings recently completed. Even with-these extensive facilities the company finds itself somewhatcramped for space and plans are already being made to extend oneof the largest buildings. There are 3 miles of tracks in and aroundthe plant, and 500 men will be employed when all departments arein operation. The machinery is all new, and much of it is electric-ally driven, power being furnished from an independent power. INTERIORS OF NEW KUHLMAN CARS or interurban lines they are acknowledged to be in the front rankof coupling devices. It has been the intention of the manufacturersto make a coupler that would have as long a life as the car to whichit is attached, and the results obtained show that this conditionhas been almost invariably satisfied. One effect of this reputation isthat the Van Dorn Company has its factory kept continually work-ing at its full capacity, and is constantly behind in filling contracts. Rossiter, MacGovern & Company, New York, have recentlybought the greater part of the machinery, including engines andgenerators, of the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Street power sta-tion of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New well-known concern has sold to the Boston & Northern Rail-road Company, and are installing in its station, two 850-kw GeneralElectric generators, direct-connected to Pennsylvania Iron Worksengines. plant. The buildings are for the most part of
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