. The street railway review . s »• LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH POWER BOUSE. switchboard, which is of slate, is of neat design, occupying one end of the generating room. The voltmetei are 1 swinging brackets. The three panels arc supplied with tlic usual , circuit-breakers, switches, and other apparatus for the com irnl of the current. [Tie feeder panel contains 12 double ipere switches, [he feeders, which are all duplex, rub- thc other shops and ear houses arc of the Kinnear rolling type, fur-nished by the Kinnear Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, O. One of the illustration- shows a cross secti
. The street railway review . s »• LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH POWER BOUSE. switchboard, which is of slate, is of neat design, occupying one end of the generating room. The voltmetei are 1 swinging brackets. The three panels arc supplied with tlic usual , circuit-breakers, switches, and other apparatus for the com irnl of the current. [Tie feeder panel contains 12 double ipere switches, [he feeders, which are all duplex, rub- thc other shops and ear houses arc of the Kinnear rolling type, fur-nished by the Kinnear Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, O. One of the illustration- shows a cross section through the castend of the shop. The roof trusses and supporting columns are allof structural steel. The second floor is principally of 1 beams andconcrete, upon which the flooring of yellow pine is laid. This. VIEW IN \ss FOUNDRY. iper, and encased in lead, run through under gbuildings. HINE \XD REPAIR S The imposing structure in the foreground of the general view ofWs is the machine and repair shop. The building is a two-tructure having a ground area 238 ft. 5 in. by 202 ft. The WOOD-WORKING DEPARTMENT . floor 1- designed to supp d of 250 lb. per sq. ft. The shop consists of ti\r bays running lengthwise of the structure, each 40ft. in width, the center hay being open through the second floorand providing for the use of the 5 ton electric traveling crane in-stalled by the Whitney Foundry Equipment of Chicago. Theroof over this hay is of the monitor type and is covered with heavywire glass. The roof over the side bays consists of 2 x 6-in. tongue 1902.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 885 and grooved flooring overlaid with rive layers of Cincinnatifelt, having ioo lb. of cement to 100 so. it., and a cap sheet coveredwith tar and gravel. The coping is of vitrified tiles. There arenumerous sky
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