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Title: American engineer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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er. It is also near theproposed location of the foundry and so arranged as to giveample yard room for storage outside of the building. The walls of Colonial shale brick with slate covered roofs, exceptin a few flat portions where composition asbestos roofing isused. TANK, C.\B AND PILOT SHOP. This shop is about 73 ft. wide and 500 ft. long and providesfacilities for all repairs to ash pans, tanks, tender under-frames, and trucks, as well as the construction of new cabs,pilots and running boards. It is served by a 30-ton doubletrolley Shaw crane running the full length of the building.The full gage industrial track which passes outside at theend of the locomotive shop and has a turntable connectionto the longitudinal tracks entering that shop, as well as con-nections and turntables giving access to all other parts of theplant, enters this building for a distance of about 30 ft. in theeast end. At the opposite end a track from the regular yard 167 168 AMERICAN ENGINEER. Viii,. X6. No. 4
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April, 1912. AMERICAN ENGlNKhiR. 169 system enters one conu-r for ;i ilislance of abniit 50 ft. Atrack leading from the turntable pit also passes tlirougli tliisshop and lias a turntable connection with llie industrial trackpassing along the south side of the l)uilding, as shown on thegeneral plan on the opposite page. All metal working tools are located in the end of the build-ing nearest the locomotive shops and here all ash pans arerepaired and tlic plates fabricated for use in repairs to tanksor steel unilerfranuS. The machinery in this section, like the cuds. The trestles, sliown in one of the dhistratii-iis, are))uilt of rails, base upward, set in cast iron pedestals locatedabout six feet apart. Here tlie tanks are completely repairedand painted. Beyond this is a space which accommodatesabout 20 undcrframes which are set on wooden trestles, leav-ing an aisle in the center and at either end. This accountsfor the shop space ud to the place where the transverse trackfrom the turnta

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