. Electric railway journal . This construction is to be of temporaryrather than permanent character because of the fact thatthe Pacific Electric Railway expects to commence workat once upon 300 or more box cars of 80,000-lb. permanent buildings for car-manufacturing pur-poses could hardly be completed in less than nine monthstime, a temporary structure will be used for the present. The principal buildings are to have steel frames, brickwalls, reinforced concrete roof, steel sash and creo-soted wood block floor. Large window openings will beprovided in the side walls, which, toge
. Electric railway journal . This construction is to be of temporaryrather than permanent character because of the fact thatthe Pacific Electric Railway expects to commence workat once upon 300 or more box cars of 80,000-lb. permanent buildings for car-manufacturing pur-poses could hardly be completed in less than nine monthstime, a temporary structure will be used for the present. The principal buildings are to have steel frames, brickwalls, reinforced concrete roof, steel sash and creo-soted wood block floor. Large window openings will beprovided in the side walls, which, together with threecontinuous runs of skylight 15 ft. wide in the threemain buildings, will give a maximum of daylight. Although it is planned to make the greatest possibleuse of machine tools and other equipment now at othershops, the cost of the Torrance Plant, including new-cranes, transfer tables and other transport devices, willbe about $1,200,000, making it one of the most completeelectric car repair shops in this PACIFIC ELECTRIC SHOPS—CROSS-SECTION OF WOOD MILL, LOOKING SOUTH TOWARD FIRE WALL July 21, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 97
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