. Electric railway journal . Leavitt Street Car House—Cross-Section Through Tracks in Storage Bay lights which are used. Each skylight is built of No. 24-gagegalvanized iron and J^-in. factory ribbed glass. The sky-lights are arranged in rows over the aisles between cartracks. Beneath these skylights at the level of the un-derside of the roof is a metal guard built of No. 15 wire of Y^-m. mesh securely fastened to theconcrete roof slab. Another illustration shows the ap-pearance of the under side of the skylights with the wire Beginning at the north end of the car house, the u
. Electric railway journal . Leavitt Street Car House—Cross-Section Through Tracks in Storage Bay lights which are used. Each skylight is built of No. 24-gagegalvanized iron and J^-in. factory ribbed glass. The sky-lights are arranged in rows over the aisles between cartracks. Beneath these skylights at the level of the un-derside of the roof is a metal guard built of No. 15 wire of Y^-m. mesh securely fastened to theconcrete roof slab. Another illustration shows the ap-pearance of the under side of the skylights with the wire Beginning at the north end of the car house, the utilitysection, which is 25 ft. wide, is subdivided as follows:Receivers and foremens offices, trainmens rooms, toiletroom, storeroom, repair shop, in which will be placed anequipment of small tools for making light repairs, oilroom and heating plant. The heating plant occupies tworooms set off from the rest of the building by full-heightbrick walls. Hot air for heating is distributed throughout. Leavitt Street Car House—View on Roof, Showing Skylights guards in place. As first designed, the car house was tobe lighted by flat skylights of wire glass, but objection tothis construction was made by the fire underwriters andthe present construction developed. As first designed, theskylights would have formed a barrier through which, itwas thought, the firemen could not have worked properlyin case of fire. As now built, the ribbed glass may easilybe broken for the insertion of a fire nozzle. The wire netbeneath each skylight serves to protect workmen from fall-ing glass in case of accidental breakage. the building by a Sturtevant fan equipment discharginginto large concrete ducts under the floors. There are twofire-tube boilers for making, steam, so arranged with ref-erence to the nearby track that coal may be unloaded closeto the firing doors. The steam at a low pressure is fedthrough heating coils arranged as baffles in the intakes oftwo large blower fans. Fresh air is received
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