. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1—SHELTER AT ST. AND JACKSON AVENUES diameter through their upper halves. The roof is built onan angle iron framing of rafters and purlins, and is in-stalled to give about 6 ins. overlap above top of the carstopping on the nearest track, so that alighting passengersare completely covered from the elements. A bracing ofiron scroll work is provided at the top of each post. Aconcrete platform connects the tracks at this transfer low cost of this shelter, which had to be designed foran extremely limited space between the north bound railsand t
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1—SHELTER AT ST. AND JACKSON AVENUES diameter through their upper halves. The roof is built onan angle iron framing of rafters and purlins, and is in-stalled to give about 6 ins. overlap above top of the carstopping on the nearest track, so that alighting passengersare completely covered from the elements. A bracing ofiron scroll work is provided at the top of each post. Aconcrete platform connects the tracks at this transfer low cost of this shelter, which had to be designed foran extremely limited space between the north bound railsand the north side of St. Charles Avenue, was largely due. FIC. SHELTER OX >rET.\IRIE ROAD to the facts that the concrete platform was already in placeand that the steel posts were second hand. Fig. 2 shows another and more ornamental type of shel-ter located on Metairie Road, New Orleans, where space issufficient to allow the shelter to stand back a few feet awayfrom the track on a small piece of lawn. Three seats areprovided here instead of one as in Fig. i, on account of thelonger headway between cars. The Metairie shelter costabout $250 and it consists of a granolithic platform 12 and 10 ft. wide set about 5 ins. into the earth and car-ried 6 ins. above ground. Four pressed brick columns withroimded corners carry the roof, which is of red Spanish 258 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 7. tile supported on open pine rafters with dressed cohniin is 12 ins. square and the roof is carried 10 the platform level. Marble caps and bases are pro-vided for all four columns, the columns being 7 ft. apart oncent
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