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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.
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ill raised.Wired glass or screen-protected window, if any, should beplaced on the opposite side from the house. Any oil, paints or lamps stored on the premises should bekept in an approved lamp room or oil room; the lamps in oneand the oil and paint in another, with walls of brick or con- another car house in which an incomplete form of cut-off hasbeen attempted. The paint shop and repair shop have wallsextending to the roof only; the iron roof trusses and supportsare imbedded in the division walls, and form almost as badconstruction as would be a total area of similar dimensions.Wood flooring and a large roof monitor form very undesirablefeatures in addition to these already mention, and the pits,in this instance, are also far from satisfactory. The iron roof March 14, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 411 trusses and columns would bend and warp to such an extentthat it is very doubtful if any part of the roof structure or thematerial forminof it would be of use after a severe car fire.
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FIG. —VIEW OF LARGE CAR SHEDS, WITH INCOMPLETE CUT-OFF, UNIROTECTED ROOFTRUSSES, UNSATISFACTORY PITS, AND WITIiOUT STANDARD DIVISION WALLS This house could have been made very fair by placing standarddivision walls every 50 ft., and providing for five tracks in eachdivision. The present arrangement is shown in Fig. 6. Theroof in this is in other cases, would be better if made of heavywood trusse., olank and gravel, and in no case should theirends pass throv.j^h or over division walls. Attention is called to the accompanying illustration (Fig. 7)of a car house having a floor space of 10,240 sq. ft. Thestructure is entirely of brick, con-crete and iron. Its chief defectsare its large area and the bareiron roof trusses. The inside pro-tection, as can be seen, is by means offrost-proof hydrants, which are themost desirable form of inside protec-tion. This house has seven tracks, itswalls are 21 ft. high at the sides to 35ft. at the peak. In the event of a firein two or more cars there w

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