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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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The new building is faced with red brick, with stone dressings.The floors in the basement are formed of concrete, and thestoking floor and switch gallery floors are of concrete on steel
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SIDE ELEVATION AND PLAN OF JOINT Street By. Journal PLAN OF SPECIAL TRACK WORK AT DONEGAL PLACE grouted up with 3 to 1 compo, and back washed after the pavingblocks had been rammed. In the greater part of the work therails were not parged, as the grouting was found to fill thespace between the paving blocks and the web of the rail, andto make a more satisfactory job. In some places where it wasnecessary to turn the traffic on the road immediately after com-pletion, such as at road crossings, the rails were parged, theblock bedded on sand, the joints racked up with chippings andgrouted with pitch and creosote oil. joists. The stoking floor is finished with blue paving bricks;the switch gallery floors with vitreous glass mosaic, and thefloor of the engine room with encaustic tiling. The walls ofthe engine house and switch galleries are faced with glazedtiles. PUMP HOUSE The pump house is 68 ft. long and 16 ft. 6 ins. wide, and isof red brick, with stone dressings. The pump wells are bui

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