. Electric railway journal . Berlin Carhouses—Charlottenburg Installation, Which Is Typical of the Older Designs fitted with transverse wired-glass skylights, the whole com-prising 25 per cent of the roof area. Additional naturallight is also obtained by the use of glass above the track doors are of the swinging type and are builtof corrugated iron. One or more of these doors havesmaller doors built in so that a man can enter the car-house without opening the track doors. The devil-strips Street Railway, estimates that their average cost per carstored is but two-thirds that of the
. Electric railway journal . Berlin Carhouses—Charlottenburg Installation, Which Is Typical of the Older Designs fitted with transverse wired-glass skylights, the whole com-prising 25 per cent of the roof area. Additional naturallight is also obtained by the use of glass above the track doors are of the swinging type and are builtof corrugated iron. One or more of these doors havesmaller doors built in so that a man can enter the car-house without opening the track doors. The devil-strips Street Railway, estimates that their average cost per carstored is but two-thirds that of the older structures. Theconstruction cost of the Britz installation for 200 to 240cars was $150,000. DETAILS OF INDIVIDUAL INSTALLATIONS The Britz carhouse is 656 ft. long and 139 ft. wide. Theutilities section, which includes a substation, is 26 ft. wide. Berlin Carhouses—General View of New Weissensee Carhouse, Showing Switching Yard and Entrance Gates in the Foreground and pit floors are of concrete and are carried on diagonaltrusses which are connected to channel-iron pit devil-strips are usually 5 ft. 10 in. wide. The pit railsare bolted directly to I-beams. These carhouses are notheated, but the company prevents the freezing of the waterlines in winter by packing all exposed piping in jute and and is so placed that it will form the center of the enlargedstructure. Unlike the other new carhouses, this one wasintended for double-end operation but it is not so double-end construction accounts for the use of two-car pits at each end of nine of the ten storage tracks in-stead of two-car pits at the entrance only. Storage track 646 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. 14. No. 1 along the outer wall has four two-car pits alternatelywith flush sections. There are two tracks with pits in therepair shop. Sliding d
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