. Electric railway review . , Grandstreet and Metropolitan avenue lines are housed. Maspethis an important operating point of the company and it hasbeen decided to spend about $500,000 in the erection of ade- by a tile fence. A small building within the yard will havecompartments for signs, lamps, salt and sand. The entranceto the car barn on Grand street is not of sufficient width togive room for more than two tracks, one having switch con-nection with the other and forming a straight storage trackthe entire length of the building. The other is a lead trackserving seven tracks equipped with i
. Electric railway review . , Grandstreet and Metropolitan avenue lines are housed. Maspethis an important operating point of the company and it hasbeen decided to spend about $500,000 in the erection of ade- by a tile fence. A small building within the yard will havecompartments for signs, lamps, salt and sand. The entranceto the car barn on Grand street is not of sufficient width togive room for more than two tracks, one having switch con-nection with the other and forming a straight storage trackthe entire length of the building. The other is a lead trackserving seven tracks equipped with inspection pits. Thatsection of the building formed by the acute angle at the in-tersection of Juniper avenue and Washington street and aspace 35 feet 4 inches wide along the Washington street endis devoted to shop purposes. In this section are gauntlettracks for wheel storage, over the center of which are sus-pended from the roof an I-beam trolley runway with chainhoists. The shop will have a forge and several installations. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company—Floor Plan of New Office, Shop and Storage Building at Maspeth. quate car barn and storage facilities. The structures will besimilar in design and equipment to the large new barns andshops of the company at Ninth avenue, which are approaoh-ing completion. The ground upon which the car barn will stand is tri-angular in shape, with a frontage of 50 feet on Grand street,the entrance. The building will extend back to Washingtonstreet a distance of 400 feet, with a rear depth on Washing-ton street of 193 feet and a frontage on Juniper avenue, thehypothenuse of the triangle, of 424 feet. The building willconsist for the greater part of a single high story, but willbe a two-story structure for a distance of 150 feet alongJuniper avenue. West of the building will be erected theopen car storage yard with 13 tracks served by 6 switchesfrom a Grand street lead track. Through the center of thisyard a fire wall will extend and the yards
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