Identifier: streetrailwayjo281906newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ns. wide between the inside col-umns and accommodates five tracks in thefront half of the car house and four in therear half of the structure, which containsthe pits. The heights from the floor to thelower chords of the roof trusses vary from)8 ft. to 19 ft., owing to the grade of thelloor. The foundations for the walls areof concrete and project 4 ins. above grade,the walls themselves being of brick. Theroof is supported on brick piers 21 ins. x24 ins., and the space between piersconsists of an 8-in.- curtain wall. This wallis carried up 2 ft. above the roof and cappedwith a tiled coping for fire protection. Theroof and the walls of this structure to within4 ft. of the floor are painted white, the restof the walls being finished in black. The footings, foundation walls, pit walls, pit piers, floors inthe pit section and the stock and oil rooms are made of con-crete. The mi.xture used for the foundation and floors in therear half of the car house and that portion of the building walls
Text Appearing After Image:
VIEW FROM SAND DRIER, LOOKING TOWARD M,\STEN STREET,OR REAR END OF CAR HOUSE for heights of 4 ins. to 14 ins. from the grade line (due tothe slope) was composed of one portion of Portland cement,two and one-half jiarts of sand and five parts of limestone orgranite crushed to pass through a 2-in. ring. For the pitwalls, pit piers and footings for the same, as well as for theroof of the oil and stock rooms in this building, the mixture July 7, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. chosen contains one part of Portland cement, two parts ofsand and three parts of limestone or granite crushed to passthrough a ly^-in. ring. The concrete floors were first laid to a thickness of 5 ins.and were then finished with a i-in. layer of. Portland cementmortar, composed of one part of Portland cement to twoparts of sharp sand troweled to a hard, smooth finish. Catchbasins and gutters formed of concrete with malleable-ironperforated covers are used for carrying off the drainage.Part of the drains are of vitrif

Note About Images