. Electric railway review . special track work needed forentrance purposes and makes every car accessible withoutany switching in the house or yards. The roundhouse andshop buildings will be built about a turntable 70 feet indiameter. A turntable of this size affords space for 44tracks, about twice as many as would be needed at thepresent time, and the first layout will cover only one-halfthe circle. The roundhouse is to be 79 feet inside and theconcave wall 62 feet from the turntable, making the radiusof the outer wall of the roundhouse about 180 feet. Accord-ing to the plan proposed one trac
. Electric railway review . special track work needed forentrance purposes and makes every car accessible withoutany switching in the house or yards. The roundhouse andshop buildings will be built about a turntable 70 feet indiameter. A turntable of this size affords space for 44tracks, about twice as many as would be needed at thepresent time, and the first layout will cover only one-halfthe circle. The roundhouse is to be 79 feet inside and theconcave wall 62 feet from the turntable, making the radiusof the outer wall of the roundhouse about 180 feet. Accord-ing to the plan proposed one track would be used for anentrance to the turntable, one for the exit, and one for aswitching track to serve the storehouse. The portion of thebuilding corresponding to three tracks would be equippedas a machine and truck shop and the next section corres-ponding to two tracks equipped as woodworking and generalrepair shops, leaving 14 stalls for car storage and of the machine shop, on an extension of the radius. Proposed Storage House and Shops, Scioto Valley Traction Com-pany—General Plan. through it, will be located the storehouse and master me-chanics office and, similarly, back of the general repair shop,is to be the paint shop. An overhead trolley, runningconcentric with the outer wall of the building and six feetfrom it, will afford means for transporting machinery fromthe car stalls to the shops. A Catch-Dollar Scheme. The Northwestern Elevated Railroad of Chicago carried77,508 passengers during the month of September, as com-pared with 74,307 for the corresponding month in 1905, anincrease of per cent. The Wall Street Journal prints the following questionand answer applicable to more than one scheme of the kind: What is your opinion of the proposed electric line fromChicago to New York, supposed to be under construction atthe present time, and in which scheme stock is being offeredat $25 for a $100 par value share? Do you consider the stocka good purch
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