. The Street railway journal . of a purely storage barn compared with an oper-ating barn as it is necessary to build the latter type. Car bodies stored and out of service are obviously not underas close watch as those which are in daily operation, and it isnot necessary that they should be, for many of the sources ofcar house fires are removed from them. Consequently, whenfor some unforeseen cause a fire does start among closely storedcar bodies, it may gain much headway before it is discovered; The existing conditions surrounding the Plank Road shopsof the Public Service Corporation in Newark
. The Street railway journal . of a purely storage barn compared with an oper-ating barn as it is necessary to build the latter type. Car bodies stored and out of service are obviously not underas close watch as those which are in daily operation, and it isnot necessary that they should be, for many of the sources ofcar house fires are removed from them. Consequently, whenfor some unforeseen cause a fire does start among closely storedcar bodies, it may gain much headway before it is discovered; The existing conditions surrounding the Plank Road shopsof the Public Service Corporation in Newark were, in 1903,ideal for the development of this type of building, and a largecar house exclusively for storage purposes has been erectedduring the past summer directly across the street from thePlank Road repair shops. When eventually completed, therewill be storage room for 240 cars of the companys largest type,i. e., cars measuring 40 ft. over all. Room for only 120 was 1/ :-J41,.x -1340 W1 if, i ft WTWx two :M1~ x liiO Id. PLAN OF PLANK ROAD CAR STORAGE HOUSE then it can only be fought at a disadvantage among other carswhich cannot be run out into the open. The argument is toseparate entirely the out-of-season cars from the operating cars,and the endeavor is to show that it is an all around economicalproposition as a general one. To produce the best results foreconomys sake, the number of cars accumulated must be verylarge on large systems—their value may aggregate half a mil-lion dollars. This requires of the designer of these buildings needed in 1903 and 1904, so only one-half of the building hasbeen completed, this being built in four bays—two of them 434ft. long each and two of them 450 ft, long each. All fire wallsare 34 ft. iy2 ins. apart, face to face of pilasters, with threetracks between each fire wall, and a storage capacity in eachbay of thirty cars of largest type. The bays are staggeredacross the lot, as shown on plan, to resist the possibility offlame lick
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