. Electric railway review . Bangor Railway Shops—Details of Pit Construction with Sup-porting Beams. the car shop building is used for the storage of cars, withfacilities for daily inspection provided by five pits, each 40feet long and 7 feet 9 inches wide. The shops are dividedinto five bays, four of these being provided with track en-trances and the fifth with offices and other quarters. Thebuilding walls are of concrete blocks, placed between rein-forced concrete columns and girders supported on the usualconcrete foundations. Kinnear rolling doors are providedat the front. The main girders
. Electric railway review . Bangor Railway Shops—Details of Pit Construction with Sup-porting Beams. the car shop building is used for the storage of cars, withfacilities for daily inspection provided by five pits, each 40feet long and 7 feet 9 inches wide. The shops are dividedinto five bays, four of these being provided with track en-trances and the fifth with offices and other quarters. Thebuilding walls are of concrete blocks, placed between rein-forced concrete columns and girders supported on the usualconcrete foundations. Kinnear rolling doors are providedat the front. The main girders of the structure are 10 incheswide by 30 inches deep. The concrete blocks are 8 by 8 by 16inches in dimensions, the window sills, 8 by 10 inches by 9feet 8 inches, the lintels 10 by 24 inches in section, and theroof beams 6 by 18 inches. The columns are in generifl 12inches square in cross section, with chamfered corners. Each. Bangor Railway Shops—Plan and Section of Shop Layout. A special feature of these pits is their convenience. Asthere is a space of about 17 inches between the center of therail and the nearest concrete wall su|)i)orting the floor, thereis room for a man to sit on the car shop floor and swing hislegs into the pit in making truck repairs or adjustments, andon the other hand, a man in the pit finds plenty of room towork on the inside of the truck or the lower outside, as thecase may be. All pits are drained to the sewer and can bewashed out at any time, while heating is provided by steamcoils running parallel to and below the rails. Pit lighting istaken care of by special 104-volt plugs and sockets wired withIron conduit into all the columns of the shops, flexible leads August 10, 1907. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 155 beins Iun as needed when night work is in ijrogress. Illusira-tions show the forms used in the concrete construction. .Muchof the timber consumed here was later utilized in th
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