. The Street railway journal . 9-in. girder^vork built by the Pennsylvania Steel Company, and will bepaved with block stone. All special work on the propertywill be 6o-lb. T-rail guarded, and to be paved with oldcommon stone. The straight rail over the inspection pitswill be 9-in. girder rail, Lorain Steel Companys section94-313. The rail in the west section of the building will be60-lb. A. S. C. E. T, and that in the storage yard will be old6-in. girder rail turned backward. The track throughout the house is level and there is auniform height of 18 ft. to the bottom of the roof tr
. The Street railway journal . 9-in. girder^vork built by the Pennsylvania Steel Company, and will bepaved with block stone. All special work on the propertywill be 6o-lb. T-rail guarded, and to be paved with oldcommon stone. The straight rail over the inspection pitswill be 9-in. girder rail, Lorain Steel Companys section94-313. The rail in the west section of the building will be60-lb. A. S. C. E. T, and that in the storage yard will be old6-in. girder rail turned backward. The track throughout the house is level and there is auniform height of 18 ft. to the bottom of the roof track spacing over the pits is 11-ft. centers, that in thewest half of ijuilding lo-ft. centers, and the storage track inyard lo-ft. 6-in. centers. CONSTRUCTION FEATURES OF THE CAR HOUSE All foundation walls are of concrete projecting 6 ins. above grade. Those in the storage half of building are 4 ft. deep, and in the pit end they are 5 ft. and 9 ft. deep. The pit walls, floors and piers are all concrete; also all floors, except. 498 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 12. in office and trainmens room. The office has a i^^ floor, and the trainmens room an iron spotted buffbrick. All roof trusses are spaced 17 ft. 6 ins. centers and arecarried on brick piers 2 ft. x 2 ft. 8 ins. in size. Thesepiers all have cap stones and two. binder blocks 12 The brick wall between the piers is 8 ins. thick andall dividing walls are carried up as fire walls 3 ft. above light. All sash in sides are pivoted and operated in groupsfrom the side walls near the floor. Lighting and ventilating car houses by means of a lanternskylight has been found very satisfactory, the car housebeing well lighted with practically no dark corners. Thegeneral lighting of the car house at night is with six 50-cpincandescent lamps placed on the bottom of each truss andcontrolled from a switch box on the side walls of the Property Line Fence ^■^•^^iFf^
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