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Title: Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways,
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kirkman, Marshall M. (Marshall Monroe), 1842-1921
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York and Chicago : The World railway publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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RE CEiV INC> s ELS. Fig. 192. PLAN OP STOCK YARD. Note—Where stock pens are built on an extensive scale (as at pointswhere large shipments are made), the alleyway should be 12 feet wide, so thatteams can be driven through with loads of hay, and the feed be distributedin the receiving or feeding pens. country stock buyer; provision is made for re-ceiving pens, feeding pens with sheds and load-ing pens ; the addition of the second runway Benables two cars to be loaded at one time. Thisplan can be varied to suit the volume of business;where range cattle are to be shipped it will benecessary to add a fence C. D. to enable theherders to get the cattle into the pens. K)S BUILDING AND EEPAIMING RAILWAYS. IP V ^-^. / P
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STANDABDS OF CONSTRUCTION. 309 Fig. 193 is a plan of a roundhouse and smallrepair shops. The roundhouse is heated by indi-rect radiation from a coil of steam pipes placedin the blower room; the air is driven by a blowerthrough the coils of steam pipes and conveyedto the roundhouse in overhead sheet iron pipesand discharged in the pits under the locomotives.Provision is made by a wrought iron pipe placedoverhead and steam hose couplings to take thelive steam from a locomotive which has justcome in and convey it to one that is about to goout. The hydraulic pit for removing drivers isreally a part of the machine shop. In the blowerroom are placed air compressors for handling thesand and operating the ash lift. Fire hydrantsH are placed in each stall. <0 oo 4 J /6 i <^--/2-6 csl Center of Side TRacK Fig. 194. PLAN OP BRICK STOREHOUSE FOR SUPPLIES. 310 BUILDING AND REPAIRING RAILWAYS, A brick storehouse is illustrated by Fig. 194.The oil room is paved with stone flagging, andno wood

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