. Electric railway journal . arge storage bay is well lighted from sash in themonitor roof and from end windows. It isclosed on the wash-house side, with the ex- ception of doors opening into the toilet room and thestoreroom. On one side of the central bay is the pit house withthree tracks, providing space for twelve cars at onetime for inspection and light repair. The wash house,with its two tracks, provides accommodations for eightcars. This building has a light steel frame, brick walls witlfsteel sash. The roofs are of the monitor type, withsash in the clerestory, and the roof is
. Electric railway journal . arge storage bay is well lighted from sash in themonitor roof and from end windows. It isclosed on the wash-house side, with the ex- ception of doors opening into the toilet room and thestoreroom. On one side of the central bay is the pit house withthree tracks, providing space for twelve cars at onetime for inspection and light repair. The wash house,with its two tracks, provides accommodations for eightcars. This building has a light steel frame, brick walls witlfsteel sash. The roofs are of the monitor type, withsash in the clerestory, and the roof is covered withcement tile. In the pit house the floor is of creosotedwood block laid on a concrete foundation, and in thewash house, storeroom and elsewhere there is a floor laid on 4 in. of concrete. At the top of this page is also shown a photographof the office, assembly and shop building at one of theremodeled yards. A plan of this building, on a smallscale, will be found in the drawing reproduced on page534. \. West DETROIT CAR YARD NEW YARD ON WEST JEFFERSON AVENUE SEE OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS ON THIS AND PREVIOUS PAGES FOR DETAILS OF BUILDINGS 538 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX. No. 12 Results of Steam Railroad Electrification At Annual Electrical Meeting of New York Railroad Club Electrical Engineers of Two Recently Electrified Roads Give Valuable Operating Data THE New York Railroad Club held its annual elec-trical night on March 16. As is usual on elec-trical nights the attendance was very large, inspite of the threatened railroad strike which preventedthe attendance of some members. E. B. Katte, chiefengineer of electric traction New York Central Railroad,presided, and papers prepared by C. H. Quinn, chiefelectrical engineer Norfolk & Western Railway, and , electrical engineer Chicago, Milwaukee & Railway, were presented. President L. E. Johnson of the Norfolk & Westernhad expected to describe the operating features of theelectric division
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