. The Street railway journal . December 21, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. are reinforced with six i%.-m. rods at the bottom and three%-in. rods at the top. Although this span is a compara-tively long one for concrete construction only a very slightdeflection was observed when the centering was removedafter having been left in place about six weeks. The roofproper is made of 3^2-in. concrete slabs resting directly onthe girders and ribs. The slabs are reinforced with ONE OF THE TRANSFER TABLES IN OPERATION rods placed 12 ins. center to center. The top coating is ofslag and pitch. Skyli
. The Street railway journal . December 21, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. are reinforced with six i%.-m. rods at the bottom and three%-in. rods at the top. Although this span is a compara-tively long one for concrete construction only a very slightdeflection was observed when the centering was removedafter having been left in place about six weeks. The roofproper is made of 3^2-in. concrete slabs resting directly onthe girders and ribs. The slabs are reinforced with ONE OF THE TRANSFER TABLES IN OPERATION rods placed 12 ins. center to center. The top coating is ofslag and pitch. Skylights 9 ft. wide, of wire glass held in metal frames,extend the full length of each bay. The frames are pro-vided with ventilators placed about 21 ft. apart. There isa total of 8700 sq. ft. of skylights. An idea of the sky-light arrangement may be obtainedfrom one of the accompanying illus-trations. TRACK CONSTRUCTION The car storage space is dividedinto three sections by the two trans-fer table runways. Moreover, thehollow tile walls separate the sectionsinto bays containing six and seventracks each. All tracks, with the ex-ception of those in the central andsouthern sections of the east bay andthe outside tracks in the west bay be-tween the transfer tables, have pitsunder them their full length. Thosein the central section and the eastbay have pits 50 ft. long at the northend. This section is intended for thestorage of out of season equipmentfrom which the plows are
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