. Electric railway review . truction is employed at otherplaces where it is necessary to carry the high-tension trans-mission lines over foreign wires. Car Houses and Shops. The building devoted to car barns and shops is locateda short distance west of the union station. The building isentirely of concrete construction and is subdivided into threebays, two of which afford pit and storage facilities, while theOther is subdivided Into a machine shop with two pits, paint capacity of the barn is 24 cars, which embraces the presentequipment. All cars are provided with a bow trolley for usewhen in t
. Electric railway review . truction is employed at otherplaces where it is necessary to carry the high-tension trans-mission lines over foreign wires. Car Houses and Shops. The building devoted to car barns and shops is locateda short distance west of the union station. The building isentirely of concrete construction and is subdivided into threebays, two of which afford pit and storage facilities, while theOther is subdivided Into a machine shop with two pits, paint capacity of the barn is 24 cars, which embraces the presentequipment. All cars are provided with a bow trolley for usewhen in the barn. All wires for lighting purposes are carried in pipes withswitches at convenient points for turning on the current bysections, and the pits are lighted by incandescent lampsplaced 5 feet apart, staggered. Provision is made for future extension of the reinforcing rods are ended in a projection at the endsof the roof beams. This projection is so built that it 776 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVII, No. Philadelphia & Western—Concrete Car House and Shops.
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