File:Design of the freight yard of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Scranton, Pa. (1907) (14760556892).jpg

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Title: Design of the freight yard of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad at Scranton, Pa.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Clement C. (Clement Clarence), 1882-1947
Subjects: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company Railroad yards Theses
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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or the outside of the concrete wall. j After the outside walls wer-e built, the whole inside of the pits v/as then excavated. It was done by runnirig a track down themiddle and loading the spoil directly into cars on this track. Thenthe cars were hauled out h\ a locomotive. This process was carriedon as long as a track could be maintained. Afterwards, the dirt was i loaded into baskets and hoisted out by means of a train wrecker • or derrick. Uext in order, the center walls were built, followed by thecrane walls on the outside. The rails to be imbeaded in the top of jthe concrete v;alls were supported by an iron rod with a fork orsimilar shape at the top. The concrete was then placed in the formsleaving the rods incased. I) The cast iron columns supporting the inner rail were set with an error of five thousandths of a foot both for line and elevation.They weigh 2B00 lb. apiece and were placed in position by the derrickof the wrecker, and adjusted by means of crowbars, Plate VII is I
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