. Electric railway journal . while in the yard and also whencoming from either direction toward the carhouse. In therear of this office two bins were built under the same roof,each holding about a carload. One of these is for drysand and the other is for anthracite coal for the cars. FIRE PROTECTION The three main buildings are protected by an automaticsprinkler system which is supplied initially from a 75,000-gal. steel tank on a 100-ft. tower. At the base of thistower is a pump house in which is installed a fire pumpwith a capacity of 1000 gal. per minute. This pump isdriven by a 100-hp, 500
. Electric railway journal . while in the yard and also whencoming from either direction toward the carhouse. In therear of this office two bins were built under the same roof,each holding about a carload. One of these is for drysand and the other is for anthracite coal for the cars. FIRE PROTECTION The three main buildings are protected by an automaticsprinkler system which is supplied initially from a 75,000-gal. steel tank on a 100-ft. tower. At the base of thistower is a pump house in which is installed a fire pumpwith a capacity of 1000 gal. per minute. This pump isdriven by a 100-hp, 500-volt direct-connected motor. Thesupply for this pump will be drawn from a large wellthrough a 10-in. suction line. The tank is of the spherical-bottom type and was furnished and erected by the DesMoines Bridge & Iron Works Company. In addition to theautomatic sprinklers in the buildings, which were installedby the Automatic Sprinkler Company, the four tracks justwest of the carhouse are protected by five monitor nozzles. Northern Ohio Shops—View of Roof of Carhouse, ShowingVentilators and Tile Roofing mounted on pipes about 25 ft. high. These monitornozzles are so arranged that one man can handle thenozzle and direct the stream upon any portion of the yard,the five nozzles being spaced at such a distance that noportion of the yard is left without protection. An electricconnection to the fire pump is provided at each of thesenozzles so the operator can start the fire pump withoutlosing any time. From this tower an 8-in. cast-iron underground mainruns parallel with the carhouse along the west side andthence across the end of the carhouse along the transfertable pit. From the other end of this main a line leadsacross the front of the carhouse and serves a hydrant nearthe dispatchers office and one in front of the this 8-in. main 6-in. lines are run to the valvesthroughout the three buildings. In the two westerly bays of the carhouse no heat hasbeen provided, and f
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