. Electric railway journal . Mexico City Tramways—Second-Class Motor Car divide the surface into a series of rectangles as can be seenin the accompanying engravings from photographs. Inthis network of steel paneling a brick wall having the thick-ness of only one brick, or 4-in., is laid. This construction has several advantages, chief of which is the great savingin weight of the walls. As mentioned previously the City ofMexico is built on a thin crust of firm soil underlying whichis an unmeasured depth of soft and unstable mud and theweight of all large buildings causes them to settle to amark
. Electric railway journal . Mexico City Tramways—Second-Class Motor Car divide the surface into a series of rectangles as can be seenin the accompanying engravings from photographs. Inthis network of steel paneling a brick wall having the thick-ness of only one brick, or 4-in., is laid. This construction has several advantages, chief of which is the great savingin weight of the walls. As mentioned previously the City ofMexico is built on a thin crust of firm soil underlying whichis an unmeasured depth of soft and unstable mud and theweight of all large buildings causes them to settle to amarked degree after erection. Even with this constructionof walls of light weight all of the tramway companysbuildings have settled somewhat since they were put Mexico City Tramways—Standard City Line Car The roofs of the substations and power station are of cor-rugated iron laid on the steel roof trusses. At the Indianilla power station a large storage batteryhas been installed. The battery floats on the feedernetwork and has a capacity for carrying the entire tram-
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