. Electric railway journal . 30 tons capacity is provided withfacilities for gravity delivery of fuel from passing the side of the carhouse proper is a brick and concreteextension 151 ft. long and 18 ft. wide, which contains inaddition to the boiler and coal rooms an inspectors office,trainmens lobby, toilets, sand and oil rooms, machine-shopspace and pump room. A small stockroom is also provided. The interior lighting of the carhouse is cared for by150 23-watt series lamps hung from the ceiling and con-trolled in groups of thirty from wall switches. In placeof the usual copper trolley
. Electric railway journal . 30 tons capacity is provided withfacilities for gravity delivery of fuel from passing the side of the carhouse proper is a brick and concreteextension 151 ft. long and 18 ft. wide, which contains inaddition to the boiler and coal rooms an inspectors office,trainmens lobby, toilets, sand and oil rooms, machine-shopspace and pump room. A small stockroom is also provided. The interior lighting of the carhouse is cared for by150 23-watt series lamps hung from the ceiling and con-trolled in groups of thirty from wall switches. In placeof the usual copper trolley wire a 3-in. x ^2-in. steel barsupported by insulated clips was attached to the undersideof the usual inverted U-trough. The cost of this arrange-ment was less than with a copper trolley wire over eachtrack. The oil room has a concrete threshold rising 8 the floor at the doorway leading into the carhouseproper, to prevent the flow of oil into the latter in caseof leakage. The walls of the oil room are also carried. Berkshire Improvements—East Street Carhouse Interior upward to a point 42 in. above the roof walls, to insureadditional fire protection. FIRE PROTECTION The carhouse is equipped with the Rockwood dry-pipesystem of sprinklers. Water is taken from the HousatonicRiver through an 8-in. pipe into a 15-in. Worthington cen-trifugal pump directly driven by a 50-hp, 600-volt Allis-Chalmers motor located in a pump well outside the maincarhouse, and it is forced from this point through a into a tank of 15,000-gal. capacity mounted on a steeltower 90 ft. above the ground. The pump discharge hasalso a 6-in. connection with a system of undergroundlines of this size to supply water to six standpipes withinthe main carhouse and to three hose houses on the propertyoutside, each of which contains a two-way hydrant and150 ft. of 2^-in. hose. At each interior standpipe 50 hose are provided, with il/2-m. nozzles. A motor-driven compressor which supplies a
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