. Electric railway journal . it devil-strips are usually 5 ft. 10 in. wide. The pit railsare bolted directly to I-beams. These carhouses are notheated, but the company prevents the freezing of the waterlines in winter by packing all exposed piping in jute and and is so placed that it will form the center of the enlargedstructure. Unlike the other new carhouses, this one wasintended for double-end operation but it is not so double-end construction accounts for the use of two-car pits at each end of nine of the ten storage tracks in-stead of two-car pits at the entrance only
. Electric railway journal . it devil-strips are usually 5 ft. 10 in. wide. The pit railsare bolted directly to I-beams. These carhouses are notheated, but the company prevents the freezing of the waterlines in winter by packing all exposed piping in jute and and is so placed that it will form the center of the enlargedstructure. Unlike the other new carhouses, this one wasintended for double-end operation but it is not so double-end construction accounts for the use of two-car pits at each end of nine of the ten storage tracks in-stead of two-car pits at the entrance only. Storage track 646 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. 14. No. 1 along the outer wall has four two-car pits alternatelywith flush sections. There are two tracks with pits in therepair shop. Sliding doors in the partition give access be-tween the carhouse proper and the utilities section. The Weissensee carhouse is 656 ft. long x 148 ft. is almost a. duplicate of the earlier Britz installation THE RJUKAN RAILWAY. Berlin Carhouses—Combined Office, Apartment Structureand Employees Restaurant Near Weissensee Carhouse except that it is single-ended and that the track along theoutside wall has a pit for its entire length. This carhouse,which was opened on Oct. 11, 1913, is the headquarters ofseven officers, 207 motormen, 234 conductors (includingtrail-car conductors), twenty-seven mechanics and thirty-one car cleaners, pitmen, etc. One of the accompanying illustrations shows the hand-some cement-faced building which is used for the businessof the transportation department and for living apartmentsfor several local division officers. The one-story annex isthe companys first carhouse canteen since the old oneswere discarded some years ago. The new installation in-cludes an excellent restaurant where a great variety ofcold and warm foods is obtainable at practically cost similar restaurant has been operated at the shops formany years. The plan of the Lichtenberg
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