. The Street railway journal . VIEW IN MAIN CAR HOUSE or any wagon that may be driven over it. At the rear of thecar house is a standpipe 32 ft. high and 3 ft. in diameter. Anautomatic electric pump maintains the pressure in this stand-pipe at from 30 lbs. to 60 lbs. per square inch, an air cushion. FREIGHT TRAIN AND ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE, TOPEKA and grouted over the top with Portland cement. All large open-ings of car house and shop are provided with Wilson rollingsteel doors. The small openings are closed with double stand-ard fire doors. Between the machine shop and the carpenter shop in the
. The Street railway journal . VIEW IN MAIN CAR HOUSE or any wagon that may be driven over it. At the rear of thecar house is a standpipe 32 ft. high and 3 ft. in diameter. Anautomatic electric pump maintains the pressure in this stand-pipe at from 30 lbs. to 60 lbs. per square inch, an air cushion. FREIGHT TRAIN AND ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE, TOPEKA and grouted over the top with Portland cement. All large open-ings of car house and shop are provided with Wilson rollingsteel doors. The small openings are closed with double stand-ard fire doors. Between the machine shop and the carpenter shop in the being maintained in the top of the standpipe to keep up thepressure when the pump stops. The standpipe is connectedwith nine fire plugs, located about the building and yards, eachof which has 100 ft. of 2^2-in. hose. These provisions, in con-nection with the fireproof construction of the buildings, secure 884 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. 20.
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