. Electric railway review . is adjacent to the main storeroom and is intended forthe storage of heavy material, such as track and line through track, depressed so that the floors of loaded carsare level with the storeroom floors, passes through this build-ing and supplies may be handled from this track to either rooms being separated by a solid fire wall. It is planned totransfer journal and motor oil from the oil house to the carrepair shop by air pressure, so that oil may be tapped fromfaucets located in the car repair shops. Brass Foundry and Sandhouse. In a building separate fro
. Electric railway review . is adjacent to the main storeroom and is intended forthe storage of heavy material, such as track and line through track, depressed so that the floors of loaded carsare level with the storeroom floors, passes through this build-ing and supplies may be handled from this track to either rooms being separated by a solid fire wall. It is planned totransfer journal and motor oil from the oil house to the carrepair shop by air pressure, so that oil may be tapped fromfaucets located in the car repair shops. Brass Foundry and Sandhouse. In a building separate from the main building is locatedthe brass foundry and babbitt room, tinsmith shop and sand-house. The brass foundry has two furnaces and a full equip- January IS, 1908. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 73 ment of brass foundry tools. The sandhouse is located withone through track on the west side and one stub track on the necessarily accumulate around a shop. Over this cast-ironpipe is placed a sand hopper which holds 2u yards of wet. Anderson Shops Indiana Union Traction Company—Car Repair Shops, Showing Car Body Being Raised by Two Electric Hoists. east side, so that the wet sand may be handled from freight orwork cars and dry sand furnished to the cars scheme of drying sand is very simple and inexpensive. A20-inch cast-iron pipe is arranged as a rubbish furnace for thepurpose of burning up all refuse, chips and rubbish which sand. The refuse is fired in the inside of the cast-iron pipeand the sand is dried by the heat thus generated. At the northwest corner of the buildings a second story,54 by 64 feet, provides accommodation for six office rooms andan instruction room. The roof of this second story is of orna- 71 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIX, No. 3. mental tile, which adds to the architectural appearance ofthe buildings. The offices are occupied by the superintendentof power, division electrician, superintendent of motive powerand master mechanic. The instructio
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