Thank you, vast but unpaid research department! I guess I should have mentioned that I model from 1945-59, so the skylights would either be painted black from the war years or frosted white. From what Bens says it might not be positioned above the escape doors. I might build a rooftop entrance/escape that came with the backalley #3 above the fire escape doors.
I haven't decided what will occupy the building--light industrial or residential. The kit comes with all kinds of window decorations for apartment usage. I will be located where freight car unloaded isn't possible so that alone would favor residential. The fire escape ladders are somewhat staggered by building 2 of the 5 backward, but are still vertical. On another but related topic, when making room for this building I removed a whole series of building flats that I installed a few years ago. I used the walls of Trainstuff kits and others for them. Those trainstuff wall sections, despite being braced from behind have warped and twisted very much like a LSD trip from the 60's. I will try the hot light bulb to soften them when I reinstall them. Bob Werre BobWphoto.com wrote: > In the old days before inexpensive electric lighting skylights were > frequently used to bring daylight into the interior of large floor > plates. They were also used over (grand) stairs and also interior > light shafts on to which windows opened in order to bring daylight into > interior areas of buildings. Many times these light wells were open in > order to provide 'fresh air' to these interior spaces. Daylight issues > are also why there were so many courtyard type buildings with narrow > wings with windows on both sides. > > Fire escapes were typically needed where there were no enclosed > interior stairs nearby. They served, as the current building code > lingo states, as a 'required means of egress'. Therefore I think it is > unlikely they were paired with adjacent enclosed interior stairs. They > were served by either doors or windows and they could switch back from > floor to floor or with intermediate landings between floors where the > stairs changed direction. > > Ben Trousdale, AIA > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, > raleigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you intend to add floors to the interior, (I assume it doesn't > > come with them) the stairwells would be in line with the fire escapes > > and enclosed. The roof entrance would be in line with the stair wells > > (and fire escape doors. The skylight is typically placed over the > > stairwell but not always. The windows wouldn't have curtains unless > > it was an apartment house. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
