. The Street railway journal . nstalled but which communicatesonly with the city fire-alarm system. HEATING SYSTEM For supplying heat to the offices, shops and inspection pitsin connection with the blower system, a steam plant wasl)uilt adjacent to and level with the machine shop. It isalso adjacent to the upper end of the inspection shop, butbeing on a lower level, the parapet wall of the inspectionbuilding serves for the rear wall of the steam plant. Thesouth wall is a portion of the concrete retaining wall asshown on Fig. 10, while the other two, which were especiallybuilt, are of brick. Ab
. The Street railway journal . nstalled but which communicatesonly with the city fire-alarm system. HEATING SYSTEM For supplying heat to the offices, shops and inspection pitsin connection with the blower system, a steam plant wasl)uilt adjacent to and level with the machine shop. It isalso adjacent to the upper end of the inspection shop, butbeing on a lower level, the parapet wall of the inspectionbuilding serves for the rear wall of the steam plant. Thesouth wall is a portion of the concrete retaining wall asshown on Fig. 10, while the other two, which were especiallybuilt, are of brick. Abundant light is furnished by an 22-ft. skylight and the front windows. The floor is com-posed of 6-in. concrete. The steam generating equipmentconsists of two horizontal return boilers which supply steamfor the heater coils in the blower room and mill room. As also shown in Fig. 10, the main blower room is be-tween the upper end of the tenth track in the inspectionshop and the steam plant. The latter, of course, is at a. S/rccI Ry. Journal FIG. -REBUILT PART PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH STREET TERMINAL, SHOWING LOCATION OFBENCH AND MILL ROOMS, BLOWER, OFFICES, ETC. departments. The fire-protective means throughout the in-spection shed and storage yard consist of frost-proof hy-drants, each furnished with 100 ft. of yA-in. standard firehose. In addition to this equipment there are also in theinspection shed a number of salt-water fire pails suspendedfrom columns between the tracks. Similar equipments offire pails, standpipes and hose will be found in the track-overhauling shop, the mill room, bench rooms and other lower level but is separated from the blower room only bythe parapet wall. Hence there are no leakage or otherlosses in conveying the steam, nor is there any necessity ofmaintaining a long line of piping. The main blower outfitconsists of ten heater coils and a Buffalo blower driven bya 30-hp motor; the other heater installation, which ismounted
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