. The Street railway journal . trackat the south side, which contains the elevator for raising carsto the second floor. The track at the opposite or north sideof this floor, leading out upon Kensington Avenue, will not beused for overhauling work, but will be kept free for cars enter-ing or leaving the shop, the pit being intended to facilitate in-spections of incoming cars or final inspections of repaired carsleaving the shop. The nine sections of track upon the first particularly on account of the importance of fireproof con-struction for urban building conditions. The result has beenthat no
. The Street railway journal . trackat the south side, which contains the elevator for raising carsto the second floor. The track at the opposite or north sideof this floor, leading out upon Kensington Avenue, will not beused for overhauling work, but will be kept free for cars enter-ing or leaving the shop, the pit being intended to facilitate in-spections of incoming cars or final inspections of repaired carsleaving the shop. The nine sections of track upon the first particularly on account of the importance of fireproof con-struction for urban building conditions. The result has beenthat not only this shop but also many important new sub-sta-tions, power plant and other buildings of the company arebeing erected in this way. The design of the structural features of the building wasintrusted to the Reinforced Cement Construction Company, ofPhiladelphia, engineers and contractors for this class of con-struction. They have provided for the construction, out of re- PEE. &TKEET t t- t! & HOP it i£. V6^>}L ii J!iE l&HOP c 1 bECON O F .00! Jack 1 M<3 OP * ov
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