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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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oved very gratifyingin the operation of cars. After having once been employedin the shops the men become familiar with the work requiredof them and render valuable assistance in the work of repair-ing cars. The Detroit Jackson & Chicago Railway is installing ninenew switches between Ann Arbor and Detroit, Mich., and willoperate a half-hour schedule beginning on May 1. 4!h; ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVII. No. 15. CAR HOUSE AND SHOPS AT KNOXVILLE. TENN. Finding it necessary to provide new quarters in whichto repair and house its rolling stock the Knoxville Railway&- Light Company has recently constructed new buildings atthe corner of Magnolia avenues and Jasmine street. Knox- Each one of these is separated from the others by corrugatediron partitions and all open directly into the pit room.Brass Furnace.The blacksmith shop is one of the interesting sections ofthe building. In the space provided for this department islocated a motor-driven air-forge, a brass and babbiting fur-
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Car House and Shops at Knoxville—Locker Room. Car House and Shops at Knoxville—Brass Furnace. ville. Tenn.. that are in keeping with the very interestingrailway system in operation in that city. The new repairshops and car houses were occupied early in the summer of1906 but were not entirely completed until fall. In designing the new buildings an effort was made to useconstruction materials of such composition that the build-ings were made as nearly fireproof as was possible. Thefoundation of the buildings is of concrete, the superstructureis of brick, and the roof design, which in the shop is of thesaw-tooth type, is of lattice-truss and purlin construction.Kinnear steel rolling doors are used throughout. The structure is not elaborate in design, though ample nace and a cabinet for the storage of the castings made atthe shops. The brass furnace, shown in one of the illustrations, isof 100 pounds capacity. It is used in melting scrap metal forcasting gongs, trolley wheels, journal

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