. The Street railway journal . .] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 341 roof construction. Heavy pilasters with square finials andlarge arched openings give an appearance of building, as shown in Fig. 15, is of hard burned redbrick set in red mortar with Pennsylvania blue stone trim-mings, slate roof and steel trusses. The building is 111 ins. X 74 ft. 4 ins. ex-ternal dimensions, andis divided by a fire wallinto a boiler room andengine room, as shownin Fig. 18. The foun-dations for the buildingare of stone masonryon a concrete footingcourse. The founda-tions of the northeastcorner
. The Street railway journal . .] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 341 roof construction. Heavy pilasters with square finials andlarge arched openings give an appearance of building, as shown in Fig. 15, is of hard burned redbrick set in red mortar with Pennsylvania blue stone trim-mings, slate roof and steel trusses. The building is 111 ins. X 74 ft. 4 ins. ex-ternal dimensions, andis divided by a fire wallinto a boiler room andengine room, as shownin Fig. 18. The foun-dations for the buildingare of stone masonryon a concrete footingcourse. The founda-tions of the northeastcorner of the boiler roomare supported by location of thebuilding is on the sideof a slope, so that theboiler room floor is atthe level of the coal un-loading wharf and thelevel seven feet six inches liability to leakage should it be made to opeu as a ventila-tor. A heavy mill construction floor provides an eight footbasement under the engine room, containing machineryfoundations, piping and condensers to which a number of. mil FIG. 16.—EXTERIOR OF CAR HOUSE. engine room basement floorabove this. This difference oflevels facilitates the piping arrangements and is shown inthe perspective section (Fig. 17). The foundations for allmachinery are of hard burned brick set in Portland ce-ment mortar, one to three. Provision for future extensionof the power house is made towards the rear of the lot. semicircular windows furnish light and air. The boilerroom floor is of concrete with Portland cement top dressing. The machinery consists at present of two 200 k. direct belted to 20 in. X 42 in. Corliss enginesrunning at eighty revolutions per minute. Separate eccen-trics are provided for steam admission and exhaust to in-crease the capacity of engines for overloads. The engines
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