. The street railway review . are imbedded in cement. Thesedoors are balanced so nicely that a child can swing them. Therear doors slide either way, and close on each other, so that eitherthe pit or wash track, or both, may be closed, as desired. The Magann storage air-brake system has been installed at thiscar house and both the Rapid Railway cars and those of the Michi-gan and Gratiot Ave. lines of the Detroit United Ry. will take air shown in the accompanying diagram, and it will also be noticedthat the Y in no way interferes with the use of the loop. Whencompleted there will be two miles o
. The street railway review . are imbedded in cement. Thesedoors are balanced so nicely that a child can swing them. Therear doors slide either way, and close on each other, so that eitherthe pit or wash track, or both, may be closed, as desired. The Magann storage air-brake system has been installed at thiscar house and both the Rapid Railway cars and those of the Michi-gan and Gratiot Ave. lines of the Detroit United Ry. will take air shown in the accompanying diagram, and it will also be noticedthat the Y in no way interferes with the use of the loop. Whencompleted there will be two miles of track in this yard, of which4 mile has t)cen laid. The yard has a frontage of about 300 a depth of 400 ft., and it is designed to have 28 storage tracks,llie work was first ordered for lO-ft. track centers, but, the size ofthe cars having increased, loVj-ft. centers were deemed necessary,room enough being allowed to wheel a barrow between the ■ obvious advantage of the loop arrangement is that it avoids the. /.5-tf - 4. /o ■o — /^^ b »- tf I—r- TTT -T-y /*/T SO-O^O^ ■ 1—r nip:: ~r~T- .11X =n±i: . /S-S J /»--- \ I ! I J
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