. The Street railway journal . es. The Denver City Tramway Company recently changed overone of its old cable houses into a modern paint shop. Con-crete floors were put in and on some of the track a scheme hasbeen used which would be useful in any car house or paintshop where car washing is done. This consists of a troughhollowed out in the concrete floor just below the car sill, asshown in Fig. i. This trough is drained to the sewer andcatches all the drippings from the side of the car when the carIS being washed. This prevents the general flooding of thefloor which is connnon in car washing r
. The Street railway journal . es. The Denver City Tramway Company recently changed overone of its old cable houses into a modern paint shop. Con-crete floors were put in and on some of the track a scheme hasbeen used which would be useful in any car house or paintshop where car washing is done. This consists of a troughhollowed out in the concrete floor just below the car sill, asshown in Fig. i. This trough is drained to the sewer andcatches all the drippings from the side of the car when the carIS being washed. This prevents the general flooding of thefloor which is connnon in car washing rooms, and keeps thewater in a location where it is least inconvenient. In this shop, racks for holding window sashes while dryingare used which are very similar to others which have recentlybeen illustrated in these columns. One of these racks is seenat the left in Fig. 2. On the tal)le at the left in this figurethere is also seen a revolving stand on which windows areplaced while the sash is being varnished. Fig. 2 also shows. FIG. 2.—INTERIOR OF I.\RTWINDOW-SASH RACKS ONR.\CKS I OF PAINT SHOP, SHOWINGLEFT AND RATTAN SEATS)X RIGHT tl;e rjttan seat racks at the right, and in the middle of thepicture in the background is the storeroom for the paint. Thisis separated Ijy a fire wall from the rest of the shop. In fact,it is in the nature of a vault, save that it has windows openingto outside. Barrels of sand for fire extinguishing purposesare kept around the shop, as can be seen in Fig. 2. PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE According to Philadelphia papers, the Pennsylvania Railroadhas commenced the construction, at its Juniata shops at Al-toona, of the first of its electric locomotives to be used at theNew York terminal. The locomotive is to be luiilt in two sec-tions, each having four 65-in. drivers, and tlie length over allis 37 ft. ioJ,j ins. When the frame is completed it will lie sentto the Westinghouse works at Pittsburg for electrical equip-ment. A system of electric
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