. The Street railway journal . TING SYSTEM AT THIRTY-SIXTH STREET, SHOWING PARTICULARLY THE MANNER OF HEATING THE PITS in. air inlet on the Fifth Avenue side which can be used insummer for distributing cold air. The main blower forcesthe hot air through pipes leading to the different parts of thebuildings as well as to the pits. Details of the pit heatingare shown in Fig. 10, from which it will be noted that theair is sent through a concrete conduit which gradually de-creases from 5 ft. X 6 ft. to 4 ft. x 3 ft., as branches of thelatter dimension are led between the pairs of pits. Alongthese b
. The Street railway journal . TING SYSTEM AT THIRTY-SIXTH STREET, SHOWING PARTICULARLY THE MANNER OF HEATING THE PITS in. air inlet on the Fifth Avenue side which can be used insummer for distributing cold air. The main blower forcesthe hot air through pipes leading to the different parts of thebuildings as well as to the pits. Details of the pit heatingare shown in Fig. 10, from which it will be noted that theair is sent through a concrete conduit which gradually de-creases from 5 ft. X 6 ft. to 4 ft. x 3 ft., as branches of thelatter dimension are led between the pairs of pits. Alongthese branches at intervals of 24 ft. are tile conduits with12-in. openings leading to the pits on each side. Theseopenings are controlled by dampers. The advantages of thismethod of pit heating have already been pointed out in thearticle covering this feature at East New York. THE THIRTY-SIXTH STREET INSPECTION SHEDThe inspection shed is 320 ft. to 350 ft. long and 144 ^ ins. wide. It consists of five bays, the outer ones being. of the inspection shed are of metal framing and wire glass,according to the A. E. Rendle Companys Paradign sys-tem, instead of wood framing as at East New York. Owing
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