. Electric railway review . — Jrtf*- Electric Park Car House—Pit Detail. patcher, line superintendent, motormen and conductors, toilet,locker, assembly, shop and boiler house. Each of the fourlong bays has four tracks extending from end to end. Thetotal trackage in the four sections is sufficient to store onehundred and eight 45-foot cars. The building construction of this car house conforms Electric Park Car House—Pit Detail with Depressed Floor. just mentioned. A steel-concrete stairway leads to a smallstoreroom above the oilroom. The triangular space at thefront of the second bay is divided
. Electric railway review . — Jrtf*- Electric Park Car House—Pit Detail. patcher, line superintendent, motormen and conductors, toilet,locker, assembly, shop and boiler house. Each of the fourlong bays has four tracks extending from end to end. Thetotal trackage in the four sections is sufficient to store onehundred and eight 45-foot cars. The building construction of this car house conforms Electric Park Car House—Pit Detail with Depressed Floor. just mentioned. A steel-concrete stairway leads to a smallstoreroom above the oilroom. The triangular space at thefront of the second bay is divided into two rooms, in one ofwhich sand is stored; the other is set apart for the use of thecar cleaners. A stairway over the sandroom affords con-venient access to the roof of the car house. In the third bay. Electric Park Car House—View of Exterior. closely to that recently adopted as standard by the UnitedRailways & Electric Company. The foundations, floors androof structures are all of concrete, reinforced where side, end and curtain walls in this car house are of considerable amount of cut stone has been used for decorat-ing the front of the building. Seven skylights built in theconcrete roof serve to illuminate each bay. The monitorssupporting these skylights are built of concrete slabs, theglass being held in a copper-covered framework. The windowopenings in the side walls have sheet metal sashes. It will be noted from the ground plan that the car house a similar space is utilized entirely for sand storage, and inthe fourth bay the triangular floor space not occupied by thetracks is set off from the interior of the car house by a fire-proof wall through which there is no opening. This roomforms a very convenient place for oil storage. It may beentered only
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