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English: «Interior of car house, showing cement tanks for collecting rainwater from roof» (original caption)

Identifier: streetrailwayrev13amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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and taken under the cars to any part of the work-shops on the bogie trucks. The workmen stand onthe bogies when doing the truck and motor repair work. ■ . 1 I Owing to the scarcity of fresh water in this local-ity, there have been constructed at the car barn twoconcrete cement tanks running the full width of ihrbuilding and into which is drained all the ram waterfalling upon the roof. These tanks are 60 ft. long,8 ft. deep and 5 ft. wide, and each year they catchand render available about $5.«» wo *»■which is used for washing the cars and for fireprotection. The car house is cciuipped with a com-plete system of automatic .sprinklers in the roof, thewater for the sprinkling system being drawn fromthe cement storage tanks by a pump and forced to anelevated lank near the car house by which meansadequate pressure is mainlaiiie.l 011 the sprinklnmRystem. The cotnpany own* 10 (Imtble truck cars and i.Ss

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S. W. Childs: “The electric tramways of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia” The Street Railway Review XIII:10 (1903.10.20): p.825

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