. Electric railway review . lexibility of operation may be obtained. December, 1900. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 987 THE CITY RAILWAY COMPANYS NEW BUILDINGS. The erection of a new car storage barn near its generaloffice building lias made it possible for The City RailwayCompany. Dayton. O., to abandon three barns in differentparts of the city and centralize its entire car maintenancework. The first and second units of the buildings, consist-ing of the main storage barn and the office building, werecompleted two years ago and the third unit, whioli is to ho liuildini; fiirmerly used as a power hous
. Electric railway review . lexibility of operation may be obtained. December, 1900. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 987 THE CITY RAILWAY COMPANYS NEW BUILDINGS. The erection of a new car storage barn near its generaloffice building lias made it possible for The City RailwayCompany. Dayton. O., to abandon three barns in differentparts of the city and centralize its entire car maintenancework. The first and second units of the buildings, consist-ing of the main storage barn and the office building, werecompleted two years ago and the third unit, whioli is to ho liuildini; fiirmerly used as a power house for the Dayton &Soldiers Home Railway Company. The building is 60 feet in floor area. It is divided into four main parts, thetruck room occupying the front of the building. Back ofthis are the machine shop, the armature and store rooms andthe blacksmith shop. In this building are also located theboilers, which furnish steam for heating all of the build-ings. An interesting feature of the equipment is the set of. Nev Buildings. The City Railway. Dayton—General View of Shop, Office and Storage Buildings. used entirely for the storage of car bodies and cars duringthe off-season, was recently built. These buildings, in addi-tion to the machine, paint and carpenter shops, which werealready built, give the company very complete accommoda-tions. Although there are two other street railway companiesoperating in the city of Dayton, namely, the Peoples Rail-way Company and the Oakwood Street Railway Company, TheCity Railway Company maintains 30 miles of track and oper-ates 50 regular cars. The officers of the company are: D. president; G. B. Clegg, vice-president: Valentine hoists used for raising and lowering car bodies. There arefour of these sets, each consisting of four track jacks fittedwith 4-foot stems. The stems of each pair of these jacksserve to raise the ends of crossbars spanning the pits andarranged, as shown in one of the illustrations, at such dis-tanc
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