. The Street railway journal . ruction returns a dividend of about ten per cent perannum. No separate accounts of the London cable linehave been published, but the expenses are much lowerowing to the fact that a two minute service is required. Itwill^be apparent from the above that the conversion of thehorse linesjin Edinburgh to thecable_system, as they carry Car House Construction in Boston. The recent additions to its rolling stock made by theWest End Street Railway Company, of Boston, and men-tioned in our last issue, has compelled the company to erecta number of new car houses. In all, ac
. The Street railway journal . ruction returns a dividend of about ten per cent perannum. No separate accounts of the London cable linehave been published, but the expenses are much lowerowing to the fact that a two minute service is required. Itwill^be apparent from the above that the conversion of thehorse linesjin Edinburgh to thecable_system, as they carry Car House Construction in Boston. The recent additions to its rolling stock made by theWest End Street Railway Company, of Boston, and men-tioned in our last issue, has compelled the company to erecta number of new car houses. In all, accommodations for391 additional cars have been supplied by the companysince last October. All the new car houses are built upon thesame general plan, and embody in their construction certainprinciples which the long experience of the company hasfound to be desirable. The plans followed are in some re-spects novel so that a study of the drawings of one of therecent car houses will be of interest. Those shown are of Sloyie H to 1. Street Railway Joiiruiil FIG. 1.—HALF CROSS SECTION THROUGH PIT ROOM. a new car house built by the company at the corner ofWashington and Cephas Streets. Walls and Roof.—The building has twelve inch brickwalls with granite sills and is covered with a mill roof of plank and heavy timbers. The foundations are of brickwith 8 in. X 8 in. hard pine posts supporting 8 in. x 10 pine girders. The floors are three inch spruce plank. Monitors.—The monitors are at right angles to thetracks instead of the usual construction which is to havethem parallel to the tracks, or extending lengthwise of thebuilding. The object of this is to secure better light andprevent the cars on the side track standing in the shadowof the cars standing on the middle tracks. Entrance Curves.—These are usually laid with tramrail mounted on a 5 in. X 8 in. stringer. While not sodurable as the girder rail and of course not so desirable for
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