. The Street railway journal . ark green wainscot for 6 ft. abovethe floor and around the doors andwindows. In general, the constructional feat-ures for the rest of the installationare the same, except that dome sky-lights are used on the flat roofs ofthe intermediate two-story facili-ties buildings. It may also be addedthat the roof structure in the machineshop is of sufficient strength to carrynot only the telpher run mentionedlater, but also 5000 lbs. suspended atany point. It will be noted from the main planthat adjacent to the inspection shed,but really forming a part of thatstructure, ar
. The Street railway journal . ark green wainscot for 6 ft. abovethe floor and around the doors andwindows. In general, the constructional feat-ures for the rest of the installationare the same, except that dome sky-lights are used on the flat roofs ofthe intermediate two-story facili-ties buildings. It may also be addedthat the roof structure in the machineshop is of sufficient strength to carrynot only the telpher run mentionedlater, but also 5000 lbs. suspended atany point. It will be noted from the main planthat adjacent to the inspection shed,but really forming a part of thatstructure, are three so-called facilities rooms—the southernroom for a storeroom and minor tools for the inspectionshed; the middle provided with toilet and washing arrange-ments for the car house men, and the third for theblower and coil apparatus which supplies heat chiefly to theinspection shed. The blower room is only one story high,but the other rooms are two stories in height, the upperfloor being used for ofiices and locker Beyond these facilities rooms and separated from it by ai2-in. brick wall is a section 79 ft. wide and 182 ft. long,now used for a power and heating plant, but eventually to beused as an electric locomotive shop. The remainderof the installation comprises a 176-ft. x 182-ft. car shop withten tracks, another facility room,, a blower room, a black-smith shop, employees quarters, offices, etc., and a machineshop. The latter is now 66 ft. wide and 134 ft. long, ioi6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 23. a space of 48 ft. x 66 ft. being occupied by a temporary away from the pits with a slope of ys in. per foot to center storeroom. drains placed every 23 ft. The water thus collected is dis- DRAINAGE charged by wrought-iron pipes to one of the side valleys in The drainage problem has been carefully worked out for the bottom of the adjoining pit and thence through grat- the entire installation, but as the system for the inspection ings under the center of
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