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Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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eral track arrangement, type of architecture, etc. Ithas been found advisable to change the original standards in such as to require the turning of 80 locomotives in 24 hourson an average. These are principally of large consolidationtype. Although the enginehouse has 30 stalls, six of these arein tlie drop pit section and are used ordinarily for light repairwork, leaving but 24 stalls for terminal service. On the basisof 80 engines every 24 hours, this gives an average of sevenand a quarter hours for each engine to remain in the house.Since practically all of the crews have regularly assigned en-gines and the crews have at least eight hours rest, storage tracksare provided for holding the locomotives that are waiting tortheir crews. Reference to the general plan of the terminal on page 463 willshow that when incoming engines entering from the left areabandoned by their crews near the coaling station, the crews. 461 (DecemberI 462 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. December, 1910.
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December, 1910. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 463 checking their oil cans, tools, etc., in the small building pro-vided for the purpose near the coaling 3tation, walk down to theinspection pits and deliver their work report. A hostler takes thelocomotive at this point, coals, sands and waters it and places itupon the inspection pit, whereupon he returns for another en-gine. After being inspected another hostler takes it to the ashpit adjoining and after the fires are cleaned puts it into theenginehouse. Although four inspection and four ash pits areshown in the drawing but three have been constructed for thepresent. The arrangement at the coaling station is such thatcoal and sand are taken at the same time on any of the threetracks and the water cranes are far enough away to allowan engine being coaled while another is taking water.In addition to the enginehouse and roaling station there are track arrangement for the storage of loaded and empty coalcars. The receiving hopper

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