. The Street railway journal . a brick curtainwall. As the climate is comparativelymild in Nashville, the storage tracks werenot closed in at the ends, and, as may beseen from an accompanying cut, thebuilding presents an unusually attractiveappearance, which is heightened consid-erably by the extended roof which over-hangs the supporting columns about15 ft. The car shed contains fifteen tracks,each with a capacity for seven 42-ft. cars,or the whole car house will shelter 105cars. All of the tracks are provided withpits, or rather, one pit about 300 ft. longextends under all of them. The pit an
. The Street railway journal . a brick curtainwall. As the climate is comparativelymild in Nashville, the storage tracks werenot closed in at the ends, and, as may beseen from an accompanying cut, thebuilding presents an unusually attractiveappearance, which is heightened consid-erably by the extended roof which over-hangs the supporting columns about15 ft. The car shed contains fifteen tracks,each with a capacity for seven 42-ft. cars,or the whole car house will shelter 105cars. All of the tracks are provided withpits, or rather, one pit about 300 ft. longextends under all of them. The pit andtrack construction in the car house issimilar to that in the repair shop. How-ever, the platforms between the trackshave been installed, as is shown in anaccompanying reproduction. Cars arewashed at the west end of the building,where the concrete floor slopes to outlets flush with the floor are lo-cated between each track. The storage shed is fireproof inthe strictest sense of the word, as the only combustible ma-. VIEW SHOWING THE OPEN-PIT CONSTRUCTION IX THENASHVILLE CAR HOUSE terials in it are in the platforms between the tracks and thewood trolley troughs. THE CARPENTER AND PAINT SHOPThe building containing the carpenter and paint shopmeasures 181 ft. 9 ins deep by 119 ft. wide. The two shopsare divided by a brick curtain wall. In the rear portion ofeach is a gallery of concrete construction extending ap-proximately one-fourth of the deptJi of the building. The September 14, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 387 paint shop, which contains three tracks, has a capacity forfifteen cars. All of the tracks are provided with drains, sothat the cars may be washed and painted without movingthem after they have once been set in the shop. The gal-lery in the rear is used as a varnish and furnishing room. The carpenter shop contains two tracks which enter thebuilding through one opening. This opening, as well asthe two of the paint shop, is provided with Kinnear rolling HAND
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