. Electric railway journal . t railway viaduct that is being com-pleted. Note the absence of joints and details which re-quire painting and regular maintenance. One road has just built offices and carhouse shops, forwhich it was desirable to keep the first cost low; so insteadof the building being constructed with corrugated iron, itwas built of asbestos-covered metal, which only increasedthe cost over ordinary corrugated iron by 9 per cent. Itrequires no painting and has a considerable advantage froma fire risk standpoint. One electric railway company is nowconstructing a storage carhouse wit
. Electric railway journal . t railway viaduct that is being com-pleted. Note the absence of joints and details which re-quire painting and regular maintenance. One road has just built offices and carhouse shops, forwhich it was desirable to keep the first cost low; so insteadof the building being constructed with corrugated iron, itwas built of asbestos-covered metal, which only increasedthe cost over ordinary corrugated iron by 9 per cent. Itrequires no painting and has a considerable advantage froma fire risk standpoint. One electric railway company is nowconstructing a storage carhouse with the asbestos metal forsides and roof. The building will house one hundred It may be of interest to state that the cost of thiscarhouse is approximately only 30 per cent of the standardbrick wall and mill construction type. The standard con-structions for carhouses, either the reinforced concrete roofor mill construction roof, or both, are types conducive tolow maintenance. Fig. 3 shows the type of carhouse that. Fig. 2—Buildings and Structures—Carhouse of Mill TypeConstruction is representative of mill construction. This building containsfour-track bays, has covered steel roof trusses 16 ft. fromthe floor, and tar and gravel roof, supported by 3-in. splinedplank and G-in. by 12-in. purlins. The trusses are arrangedto pitch in one direction for each bay, thus simplifying thenumber of roof gutters and the entire drainage system. Thepits are open, with the rails supported on creosoted woodblocks anchored to reinforced concrete piers. The design issimple and there is no waste space or fancy trimmings. October 13, 1911.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 823 METHODS AND ORGANIZATION The methods pursued by the different railway companiesin maintaining buildings depend somewhat on the scope ofthe work. A small company with only a few buildings,
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