. The Street railway journal . FIG. 7.—PLAN OF SUB-BASEMENT IN SUB STATION NO. 4, ARRANGED FOR STORAGE BATTERIES 8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. i. of Portage Entry, red sandstone, all eight-cut work. Theroofs of the high-tension gallery, elevator tower and entranceloggia are of Conosera hard-vitrious red roofing tile, while. FIG. 11.— STARTING SET IN STATION NO. 4 cornice and gutters are of heavy ornamental copper, 30 The direct-current cal)les to the elevated structure have Ijeen carried as high as possible in the switchboard tower. Theyleave the station at a point above th
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 7.—PLAN OF SUB-BASEMENT IN SUB STATION NO. 4, ARRANGED FOR STORAGE BATTERIES 8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. i. of Portage Entry, red sandstone, all eight-cut work. Theroofs of the high-tension gallery, elevator tower and entranceloggia are of Conosera hard-vitrious red roofing tile, while. FIG. 11.— STARTING SET IN STATION NO. 4 cornice and gutters are of heavy ornamental copper, 30 The direct-current cal)les to the elevated structure have Ijeen carried as high as possible in the switchboard tower. Theyleave the station at a point above the third-story windows anddirectly below the cornice. The great height of the elevatedstructure at this point, 59 ft. 4^/^ ins., makes this possible. Owing to the peculiarities of the site of station No. 4, whichwas an old ravine filled in with ashes, it was necessary to ex-cavate to a depth of 32 ft. for the column footings. At thisdepth a comparatively good foundation was made, on what de-veloped into an old brook bed; in fact, considerable flow ofwater was encountered near the tower footings, and provisionhad to be made for allowing this free passage by building pipes through the concrete footings at intervals, althoughto guard against a stoppage of this flow and the possible back-ing up of water, the entire ba
Size: 1791px × 1395px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectstreetr, bookyear1884
