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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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DOOR, WETHERSFIELD CAR HOUSE, SHOWINGLADDER TRACKS INSIDE THE HOUSE approval and indorsement of the New England Insurance Ex-change, and it is not without interest to add that the inaugura-tion of the scheme is saving the Hartford Street Railway Com-pany $2 a day in fire insurance premiums. The general ideahas been worked out by J. T. Tregoning, engineer for theHartford Company, in conjunction with Norman McD. Craw-ford, general manager, to whom acknowledgement is made forthe information and diagrams reproduced in this article. having a capacity for holding 100,000 gals, of water, and toconnect the sprinkler system and the fire-hydrant system ofthe car house property to this reservoir. The underground cistern or tank is 60 ft. long and ex-tends underneath eight tracks. In building it, the space wasexcavated to a depth of 9 ft. 3 ins. below the floor level. Inthe bottom of the space 4 ins. of cinders well tamped were firstlaid; on this, 6 ins. of concrete were placed, and the walls of
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INTERIOR OF WETHERSFIELD AVENUE CAR HOUSES, HARTFORD 2IO STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 5. the reservoir were built up with concrete cement work. Thewater reservoir itself measures 2 ft. 8 ins. from the concretebottom to the roof. This roof consists of 6 ins. of concretecement, reinforced with l/2-m. round rods and sheets of ex-panded metal placed in the manner shown on the cross-section

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