. Electric railway journal . ters. The north side of the building has space old carhouse and in the armature room, a traveling craneover one pit track beside the blacksmith simp, concreteand limber scrap bins outside the carhouse and the Mer-ritl metal unit bins and lockers throughout the stock de-partment. The fire protection of the carhouse and shopsalso includes a ( irinuell sprinkler installation with 8l0 roofheads and 507 aisle heads for car protection. In the new portion of the carhouse no pits are provided. 1272 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. 25. Six tracks are carried entirel
. Electric railway journal . ters. The north side of the building has space old carhouse and in the armature room, a traveling craneover one pit track beside the blacksmith simp, concreteand limber scrap bins outside the carhouse and the Mer-ritl metal unit bins and lockers throughout the stock de-partment. The fire protection of the carhouse and shopsalso includes a ( irinuell sprinkler installation with 8l0 roofheads and 507 aisle heads for car protection. In the new portion of the carhouse no pits are provided. 1272 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. 25. Six tracks are carried entirely through the property, per-mitting entrance and exit of cars at either end, and theseconnect with the Pittsfield-North Adams interurban lineby ladder tracks. A short track for outdoor wheel storageis provided at the forge shop, and connection with the ad-jacent main line tracks of the Boston & Albany Railroadis obtained by a trestle track which passes the scrap binsand also serves as a coal-discharging track outside the. Berkshire Improvements—Scrap Bin, Ramp and Side Trackat East Street Carhouse power house. The offices of the general manager, dis-patchers quarters and superintendents office are locatedon the second floor on the front of the old carhouse andby extending outward from that building command anunusual view up and down the line. CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT FEATURES At the front of the extension Kinnear rolling steel doorsare provided, with windows above to amplify the lightingof the carhouse interior. There are ten wired-glass sky-lights over the building, usually 14 ft. x 15 ft. in size. Therolling doors are 15 ft. high. The bar type of trolley usedis 2^-in. x 21/2-in. round-edge iron in 12-ft. lengths, whichis attached at 6-ft. intervals to wooden trough by meansof Anderson hangers and jMs-in. bolts. Concrete founda-tions are used for all walls and columns. At intervals of30 ft. along the side walls Hubbell sockets wired in con-duit are brought down to within 4
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