. Electric railway review . stone. Thestraight rail over the inspection pits is 9-inch girder LorainSteel Companys section 94-313. The rail in the west sectionof the building is 60-pound A. S. C. E. and that in the storageyard is old 6-inch girder rail turned backward. The track throughout the house is level and there is auniform height of 18 feet to the bottom of the roof track spacing over the pits is on 11-foot centers, that inthe west half of the building 10-foot centers and the storagetrack in the yard has 10-foot 6-inch centers. Structural Features of the Car House. All found
. Electric railway review . stone. Thestraight rail over the inspection pits is 9-inch girder LorainSteel Companys section 94-313. The rail in the west sectionof the building is 60-pound A. S. C. E. and that in the storageyard is old 6-inch girder rail turned backward. The track throughout the house is level and there is auniform height of 18 feet to the bottom of the roof track spacing over the pits is on 11-foot centers, that inthe west half of the building 10-foot centers and the storagetrack in the yard has 10-foot 6-inch centers. Structural Features of the Car House. All foundation walls are of concrete, projecting 6 inchesabove grade. Those in the storage half of the building are4 feet deep and in the pit end they are 5 and 9 feet pit walls, floors and piers are all concrete; also all floorsexcept in the office and the trainmens room. The office flooris of lVg-inch maple and that of the trainmens room is iron-spotted buff brick. All roof trusses are spaced 17 feet 6 inches centers and. Broadway Car House. Buffalo—Front End of Car House. a trainmens room for the traffic department: also a heatingplant, storerooms, oilrooms, etc. General Dimensions and Track Arrangement. The property on which this car house is located has atotal length of 698 feet 4 inches fronting on Broadway witha uniform width of 270 feet 8 inches extending back to Stonestreet. The car house is .J61 feet long and has a total width of14S feet. It is divided longitudinally into two equal bays, each56 feet wide, with the offices and storerooms, 32 feet wide,running along the Broadway front. The car house is alsodivided transversely by steel rolling fire doors, thereby sepa-rating the building into four sections, so that a fire may beconfined to any one section. A driveway from Broadway inthe center of the building would allow the ready entrance offire fighting apparatus to all sections of the building. Cars enter the house at the east end, pass over the pitswhere they are
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