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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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ins. x 6 ins., cast iron, and are leadedinto the sewer inlets. At the top they are fitted with i6-in.copper conductor heads which extend through the roof, areturned down on the same and fitted with galvanized wirescreens v^hich project 3 ins. above the roof and prevent refuse close to the walls, securely attached with wrought-iron straps.At a height of 3 ft. above the floor they are equipped with a3-in. hose valve, above each of which is a capped air chamber12 ins. long. It has been found that greater efficiency issecured in car and truck washing by combining compressedair from the car reservoirs with the water from this piping,a pressure of 70 lbs. often being obtained. There is a swing-ing hose rack at each stand pipe which holds 50 ft. of 2-in.rubber line cotton hose in one length. Each line of hose isprovided with brass couplings and spanner and a 12-in. brassnozzle. One of the most commendable features of this car houseis the pit construction. Each section of the rear half of the
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VIEW THROUGH THE CAR HOUSE, SHOWING THE PITS, CHECKER PLATES, RADIATORS AND SKYLIGHT CONSTRUCTION from clogging the conductors. Around all the walls and sky-lights was placed a flashing of No. 26 galvanized iron, 6 ins.on the roof and 12 ins. up the walls. After counter-flashingthis was cemented with oil cement. In constructing the roofing, the roofing boards were cov-ered with one thickness of dry felt, and over this were putfour layers of No. i roofing felt weighing about 15 lbs. singlethickness to 100 sq. ft. These layers were cemented, afterwhich the roof was entirely covered with a coating of fire-proof fibrous actinolite cement troweled on not less than)4 in. thick. The water supply is secured through a 4-in. main connectedto the 6-in. city main in Masten Street. The stand pipes arerun from this 4-in. main, as indicated on the plan drawingThese stand pipes are of 2-in. galvanized iron, carried up building contains four continuous pits 200 ft. long. Thepits have a concrete floor

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