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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ng; from the bottom of the truss to the rail is 16 ft. 6 in.The roof is of matched 2-in. sheating covered with five lay-ers of building felt and gravel. The work of washing cars and cleaning and adjustingtrucks has to be done in w-inter as well as in summer and aneffective heating system was necessary for a portion of thecar house. Accordingly two tubular boilers, 54 in. by 16 ft.are installed in a pit at the southwest corner of the buildingto furnish steam for heating purposes. The radiating sur-face provided consists of 1,500 sq. ft. arranged in manifoldsalong the west w-all just below the windows and along thewest row of posts, the bottom pipes being about 8 ft. fromthe ground. Last winter was particidarly severe and duringthe coldest weather the men were able to work about thecars witli tiieir coats off. .\t the south end of the building an oil room is providedwhich is 8 X 10 ft. and will hold 12 barrels. The walls of thisroom are of brick and the roof of old rails and cement con-
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ILAN OF NEW CAR HOISE. OMAHA STREET RAILWAY CO. 312 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. IX. No. 5 Crete; it is excavated to the depth of several feet below thegeneral floor level so that in event of fire the oil cannot runover the rest of the building. To provide an efficient system of fire protection for abuilding of this kind is quite a problem and the very sati.s-factory solution in this case was worked out by the generalmanager of the company, Mr. W. A. Smith, after consulta-tion with the fire marshal of the city. A 6-in. water-mainenters the building at the middle point of the west wall andis carried up the wall to the roof truss and thence across tothe center line of the building; a i/2-in. hose connection isprovided on the west wall. Along the center of the buildingjust west of the center line, a runway 4 ft. wide is laid on thechords of the roof trusses ; the runway extends to within 100ft. of each end of the building, and at each cud of it is an ironladder down to the floor. The sid

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