. Electric railway journal . oating shall not be done until the engineer in charge for the ChicagoRailways Company has been notified. The inside surface of all parapetfire walls above roof line shall be mopped with one heavy coating ofcoal tar pitch, using not less than 40 lbs. per 100 sq. ft. Guarantee—Give written guarantee for ten (10) years. An illustration presents a view of a portion of the roofof the car house, showing the large number of small sky- UTILITY SECTION The eastern bay of the new car house is subdivided bya longitudinal end-to-end brick wall into a repair bayand a row of uti
. Electric railway journal . oating shall not be done until the engineer in charge for the ChicagoRailways Company has been notified. The inside surface of all parapetfire walls above roof line shall be mopped with one heavy coating ofcoal tar pitch, using not less than 40 lbs. per 100 sq. ft. Guarantee—Give written guarantee for ten (10) years. An illustration presents a view of a portion of the roofof the car house, showing the large number of small sky- UTILITY SECTION The eastern bay of the new car house is subdivided bya longitudinal end-to-end brick wall into a repair bayand a row of utility rooms and offices. A 10-ton electriccrane serves the two tracks in the repair bay. One ofthe tracks, that which extends through the building, isbuilt over a repair pit 192 ft. long. The second track hasneither outside connection nor pit, and is designed for usein making truck repairs. The car body crane to be usedhere was built by the Cleveland Crane Company, and isprovided with a full motor equipment. 15 Phnjlar Bays. Leavitt Street Car House—Cross-Section Through Tracks in Storage Bay lights which are used. Each skylight is built of No. 24-gagegalvanized iron and J^-in. factory ribbed glass. The sky-lights are arranged in rows over the aisles between cartracks. Beneath these skylights at the level of the un-derside of the roof is a metal guard built of No. 15 wire of Y^-m. mesh securely fastened to theconcrete roof slab. Another illustration shows the ap-pearance of the under side of the skylights with the wire Beginning at the north end of the car house, the utilitysection, which is 25 ft. wide, is subdivided as follows:Receivers and foremens offices, trainmens rooms, toiletroom, storeroom, repair shop, in which will be placed anequipment of small tools for making light repairs, oilroom and heating plant. The heating plant occupies tworooms set off from the rest of the building by full-heightbrick walls. Hot air for heating is distributed throughout
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