. The street railway review . by the Mayer & Englund Co. of Philadelphia. Onsingle track lines single bracket construction wasused. The c:ir house measures .100 x 60 ft. and is equalu> anything to be found of similar size in theLnitcd States. It is built of steel throughout andcovered with galvanized iron. The steel for thebuilding was furnished by the American Bridge pit arrangement at the car house is novel andis applicable to American conditions. The trackrails upon which the cars rest in the car house arccarried on cast iron columns s in. in diameter rest-ing upon concrete cement
. The street railway review . by the Mayer & Englund Co. of Philadelphia. Onsingle track lines single bracket construction wasused. The c:ir house measures .100 x 60 ft. and is equalu> anything to be found of similar size in theLnitcd States. It is built of steel throughout andcovered with galvanized iron. The steel for thebuilding was furnished by the American Bridge pit arrangement at the car house is novel andis applicable to American conditions. The trackrails upon which the cars rest in the car house arccarried on cast iron columns s in. in diameter rest-ing upon concrete cement piers. There is no floor-ing, strictly speaking, in the car barn, but all thework is done from the ground level, as will be un-derstood from the illustrations. To expedite re-pair work, a bogie truck with flat tired wheels isused, which can be moved about at will over theground level. At the back of the barn on the lowerlevel is a set of cross tracks so that armatures andtruck and motor parts can be dropped to this level. CAR HOUSE PIT CONSTRUCTION. 826 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XIII. No. lo. truck cars have four G. E. 58 motors lo each car, following ac-cepted American practice. Power is furnished by the Kalgoorlie Electric Power & Light-ing Corporation, Limited, which also supplies electric power to the 1 ■ i 1 HH if llliifiiliij^iijiiiiiii^^ ^^ii^^lHiHMK CAR HUUSE IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. neighboring gold mines. This power plant is capable of producingpower economically, using during dry seasons water which is prac-tically a saturated solution of ordinary and other salts. The entireplant was designed by J. G. White & Co., Limited, of London, and & Co., of London and Glasgow, and direct connected to a soo-kw.(General Electric alternator. ITiese units supply two cycle alternat-ing currents at 600 volts, which for tramway purposes is changed to550 direct current in two G. E. rotary converters, located at the powerhouse. Steam is furnished by a battery of Babcock& Wilcox
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