. Electric railway journal . Luzerne Carhouse—Receivers Office quent opening of the track doors and saves time in securingsupplies is the supply tunnel between one of the tracks andthe storeroom basement. Besides the track for the supplytrucks, this tunnel serves for the water, sewer and steamlines. A much longer concrete tunnel is in service between June. 28, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1141 the stock building as indicated on one of the plans. Thesetunnels necessitated little excavation as they were con-structed before the surfacing of the property. SAND SUPPLY., FIRE PROTECTION, ETC. An
. Electric railway journal . Luzerne Carhouse—Receivers Office quent opening of the track doors and saves time in securingsupplies is the supply tunnel between one of the tracks andthe storeroom basement. Besides the track for the supplytrucks, this tunnel serves for the water, sewer and steamlines. A much longer concrete tunnel is in service between June. 28, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1141 the stock building as indicated on one of the plans. Thesetunnels necessitated little excavation as they were con-structed before the surfacing of the property. SAND SUPPLY., FIRE PROTECTION, ETC. An elaborate sand-storage and distributing equipment. Luzerne Carhouse—Sand Spout Supplied from StorageBin Above has been installed to make it easy for the crews to fill theirboxes with clean sand in the shortest possible time andwithout placing cumbersome rubbish-gathering binsthroughout the building. For this purpose the companybuilt a sand house where the sand brought from the dryingplant in hopper-bottomed cars is dumped and then raisedby a motor-driven bucket elevator to a Robins belt con-veyor which distributes its load throughout the sand-handling panel extending across the rear of the panel is 16 ft. wide and is lighted by means of steel-sash windows in the rear wall. Outlets from the bottomof the sand storage are provided at the partition wallswith a supply pipe for each side of the partition. Toobtain sand, it is necessary only to raise the weightedvalve, as illustrated, and the sand receptacle will be filledalmost instantly. The fireproof construction of this carhouse, its divisioninto sections storing a maximu
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