. The Street railway journal . from the rear wall. There isalso a slight difference in the arrangement of the oil storagetriangular compartment, the entrance to which is from theoutside and entirely separated by fire walls from the carhouse proper. Sand pits and car cleaners rooms as wellas a room set apart for the daily use of oil are provided, asat Edmondson Avenue, and are closed by brick fire walls,having standard underwriters fire doors. Aisle and ceiling sprinklers are used in this car house asat Edmondson Avenue, but the equipment is being installedby the Phoenix Fire Extinguisher Compa
. The Street railway journal . from the rear wall. There isalso a slight difference in the arrangement of the oil storagetriangular compartment, the entrance to which is from theoutside and entirely separated by fire walls from the carhouse proper. Sand pits and car cleaners rooms as wellas a room set apart for the daily use of oil are provided, asat Edmondson Avenue, and are closed by brick fire walls,having standard underwriters fire doors. Aisle and ceiling sprinklers are used in this car house asat Edmondson Avenue, but the equipment is being installedby the Phoenix Fire Extinguisher Company, of to local conditions connected with the water supply,it is considered desirable to install in this car house twotanks of 40,000 gals, each instead of one tank. The pits are drained by an electrically-driven centrifugalpump with a capacity of 75 gals, per minute, with auto-matic start consisting of a ball float and a Whittinghamsolenoid automatic motor start. The Edmondson Avenue and Electric Park car houses. FIG. 11.—ELECTRIC PARK CAR HOUSE when the trolley may be reversed. In addition the aislesprinkler pipes are insulated by means of special mica col-lars which are placed within the joints. These joints pre-vent danger from grounding throughout the building in caseof accidental contact with the trolley wire in any way. All exterior doors are of the rolling type, either Kinnearor Wilson, and have steel thresholds. All fire-door open-ings have channel-iron frames around the entire opening. ELECTRIC PARK CAR HOUSEPlan views and a front elevation of the Electric Park carliouse, which is the next farthest along, are given in Figs 12and 13. As already stated, thic car house consists of areinforced concrete skeleton frame with brick walls on theoutside as well as on the inside. The building has a widthof 214 ft. and a depth of 314 ft., and is subdivided into fivesections. Each section is separated from the next by abrick fire wall with the usual self-closing fi
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