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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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p, erection shop, boiler and tank shop, blacksmith shop, jjfoundry, pattern shop and storage, paint shop, mines repair shop,storehouse and offices, power house, laboratory, scrap platform,shop yards, and miscellaneous materials sheds. Some of the buildings had to be eredted on filled ground heldby a 45-ft. retaining v/all. The foundry was located nearest theretaining wall because all of the other buildings will contain heavyhammers or heavy moving loadn. The two yard cranes, each 10 tonscapacity, are located so as to serve in their travel of 700 and1000 feet respectively, the foundry, the blacksniitin shop, the storehouse and the scrap platform. Generally speaking, all of the buildings will have reinforcedconcrete foundations supporting brick walls, or steel columns as thecase may be. It is probable that in all buildings equipped withcranes or subjected to the stress of moving loads, a steel frameconstruction will be adopted. The site devoted to the machine and erecting shop and the I
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25 boiler shop is 582 ft. long by 344 ft. wide and will have six bays !as indicated in the cross-section, Fig. 4. The erecting bays aresituated outside, then corae the two heavy-work bays and int he centerare the two light work bays . The erecting bays are 60 ft. wide and have transverse pits42 ft. long spaced 24 ft. center to center. They are served by thedouble deck crane runways, the upper crane being fitted with twosixty-ton hoists and one fifteen-ton hoist, and the lower crane withtwo fifteen-ton hoists. The bays are lighted by windows within fourfeet of the floor. The storage pits, which are between the erectionpits, are 30 ft. long, 6 ft. wide and 30 in. deep. Between eachpair of pits is a bench with two vises . The engines will be headedin, a wide runway being provided at the front end. The two heavy-work bays will have a width of GO.ft. and aheight of 20 ft. to the crane run-way. The track will be extendeda distance of thirty-twc feet into these bays to provide for wheelI sto

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