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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the company, thenew location being only 6 miles from the(lid plant. The lot selected has a frontageof about 1,300 ft. upon the freight yardof the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., etc., atReadville station, the distributing pointfor all freight passing over either theMidland or Providence divisions of saidroad. One side of the lot is bounded by the number of floors to be provided in thevarious buildings. The lay of the landand its available area being somewhatagainst a group of one-story buildings, anda simple calculation showing that the ac-tual cost of the power expended in a sin-ble year for lifting the entire product ofthe wiirks through a distance of 20 ft.figured only a little over a dollar, deter-mined tlie company upon the building ofmulti-storied buildings. The character oftlie products of this corripany readily lentitself to such a design, and it was be-lieved that the fixed charges on elevatingmachinery would be more than offset bya reduction in the horizontal distances <^-\
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NEW PLANT OF THE H V. STURTEV,\NT CO , HYDE PARK, MASS. careful consideration. Aside from thegeneral character of the lot itself theprincipal factors considered in reaching adecision were proximity to raw materials,and to an abundance of skilled labor, ade-quate shipping facilities, ample water sup-ply, and space for ready disposal of wastematerial. The advantages of the West asagainst the East were carefully weighed,but the company readily expressed itsabiding faith in the prosperity of NewEngland, in the facilities which it pre-sents for work of the character conductedby this company, and in the quality of itsskilled labor as an offset to present some-what higher rates for raw material. Thebest combination of advantages was pre-sented by a lot of nearly 20 acres of landin the town of Hyde Park, Mass., already .1 plentiful stream known as MotherBrook, and the adjacent shore is at a levelot nearly 10 feet below that of the yardand buildings, thus providing sufficientspace for dumping

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