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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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ayers of tar felt. Aside from the doors and windows of the car house,plenty of illumination is secured through the wire glass sky-lights. There are six 4-ft. x 12-ft. lights in the roof of thebay section, but in the shop section there are four over thepits alone; there are also two lights in the carpenter shopand one 4-ft. x 20-ft. transverse skylight in the paint shop.The paint shop, being at the end of the building, also hasside lights. The car house is ventilated by four 48-in. Burtroof ventilators, two in each bay. Inside fire protection issecured by four 2-in. fire hydrants placed as shown on theplan. These are supplied with water from the city water-works through a 4-in. main. The general scheme of floorand pit drainage is clearly indicated on the plan and section. The third section of the installation is devoted to miscel-laneous purposes and extends the full length of the carhouse proper, but is only 20 ft. wide. It will be noted that STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXX. No. 18.
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November 2, IQ07.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 911 the office section and main store room are not of fireproofconstruction, because the reduction in rates offered by theunderwriters was not large enough to warrant the extra ex-penditure for fireproofing this portion of the work. How-ever, protective means are secured by the installation ofstandard fire doors at all openings in the division wall be-tween this section and the car house, as well as by the twofire hydrants. The blacksmith shop, constituting the mainfire risk, is isolated from, both store rooms by a 9-in. brickwall, and the flue is lined with fire tile to the roof. In gen-eral this section is a two-story structure, with a wood roof VitriHrd Tile Coping . No definite decision has been reached regarding cranes,hoists and machine tools. It is probable, however, that alocomotive crane will be used for handling all material out-side of the car house throughout the storage yard, and atraveler of some kind installed in the shop porti

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