. Electric railway journal . iary pipe discharges a 6-in. stream ofcool ocean water. The building enclosing these pools hasfour stories and a basement. There are now 950 dressingrooms available for use, and the top floor has been held inreserve. Space is provided there for the addition of 500dressing rooms. As many as 2000 people ordinarily use thebath house in a day and pay 25 cents each as an entrancefee. The bath house cost $160,000. CONCRETE MIXER IN MEMPHIS The shops of the Memphis Street Railway recently havecompleted the concrete mixing outfit illustrated. The mixerwas supplied by the C
. Electric railway journal . iary pipe discharges a 6-in. stream ofcool ocean water. The building enclosing these pools hasfour stories and a basement. There are now 950 dressingrooms available for use, and the top floor has been held inreserve. Space is provided there for the addition of 500dressing rooms. As many as 2000 people ordinarily use thebath house in a day and pay 25 cents each as an entrancefee. The bath house cost $160,000. CONCRETE MIXER IN MEMPHIS The shops of the Memphis Street Railway recently havecompleted the concrete mixing outfit illustrated. The mixerwas supplied by the Chicago Concrete Machinery Com-pany, Chicago, 111., and is designed especially for streetrailway work. The railway company built the car for car-rying this mixer and the special propelling truck. The carwhich carries the mixer is supported on two axles with24-in. wheels. These low wheels permit placing the mix-ing outfit so close to the street that materials can easilybe shoveled into the charging skips. A 15-hp motor is used. Concrete Mixer Used in Memphis to operate the mixing drum and the charging skips. Themovement of both is controlled by levers on the car is moved along the street by a GE-800 motormounted on a single axle and partly carried by a wrought-iron connection bar. The controller for this motor ismounted on the mixer car platform, near the switches andlevers which control the mixing machinery. This sep-arate pair of wheels for carrying the propulsion motor wasnecessary because of lack of room under the low mixer car platform, due to the small wheels. According to the Japan Chronicle, the Hachioji-Kafuline of the Japanese Middle District Railway is to be elec-trified. Fifteen motor cars have been ordered from the Osaka Railway Carriage Company. The public works committee of the Chamber of Depu-ties of the Argentine Republic has reported favorably onthe project of the Western Railway for the constructionof a tube railway from the Ouce to the Port of Bue
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