. Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways, . Fig. 188. • SMALT. FRAME DEPOT. Fig. 188 is a plan of a frame depot suitable tobe used where business is light or moderate andwhere the agents family can secure a house awayfrom the depot to live in. Fig. 189 is a plan of a frame depot for astation doing a fair business. A house track isprovided for, which can also be used as a teamtrack for carload freight. All of these depots when built in a northernclimate should be set on a stone found
. Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways, . Fig. 188. • SMALT. FRAME DEPOT. Fig. 188 is a plan of a frame depot suitable tobe used where business is light or moderate andwhere the agents family can secure a house awayfrom the depot to live in. Fig. 189 is a plan of a frame depot for astation doing a fair business. A house track isprovided for, which can also be used as a teamtrack for carload freight. All of these depots when built in a northernclimate should be set on a stone foundation orsome other provision made to keep the floorswarm. The floor of the warehouse should be oftwo-inch plank and the waiting rooms, offices andliving rooms double floored, the top one being of STANDARDS OF CONSTRUCTION. 303 K»A»-> *■. o Eh PHtS3 m 00 QO% g Q 304 BUILDING AND REPAIRING RAILWAYS, hard maple. The doors in the warehouse shouldbe sliding, six feet wide and seven feet high; theother outside doors should be three feet wide andseven feet high. The inside doors can betwo feet six inches wide and seven feet windows should be placed in the ware-house, they afford opportunity for petty thievesto ascertain whether fruits, etc., are on handand tempt them to pilfer. A transom shouldbe placed over the end door. The waiting ^ I I I. oo G^A/ I-X- II CO 00 I I U LfiDIEt Coal OIL I I- b. 1 I I V I N _^^_ <- - - s Fig. 190. OUTBUILDINGS FOK SMALL DEPOTS. STANDARDS OF CONSTRUCTION. 305 room and office windows are often made oftwelve lights, each eight by sixteen inches, whichgive a good light for clerks to work in; one feat-ure about windows in a room where clerks areemployed is to have them well up above the floor,as the light is required on the books and papersthe clerks are working on and not on the floor.
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