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Identifier: railwaymastermec33newy (find matches)
Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
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d north of thecoach shop, convenient to the woodworking shop and lumberstorage piles, and also well situated with reference to the forgeand locomotive shops. A standard gauge track passes throughthe woodworking shop and runs parallel with the freight carrepair tracks, which serves as an industrial track for transport-ing timber from the mill to the repair yard. A standard gaugeindustrial track is provided through the locomotive and forgeshop, passing the material sheds and scrap storage yard, whichgreatly facilitates the handling of material between these de-partments. A track directly through the machine shop and en-gine house passes over the driving wheel drop pit and rendersit possible to roll removed drivers directly from the pit into themachine shop, where they can be taken with an electric Telpherhoist from this track direct to the driving wheel lathe. A Ytrack is provided in the north end of the yard for turningcoaches and cars which are too long to be turned on the turn-table.
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View Showing Nature of Ground on Shop Site tures, the main buildings comprising locomotive shop, which in-cludes erecting, machine, forge and boiler and tank departments,the coach shop, which includes the woodworking shop, the en-gine house, general storehouse and office building, and the lo-comotive coaling plant. In addition to the above main build-ings there is an oil storage house, lavatory buildings, trans-former house for electric service, material storage building,cinder and ash pit and depressed car wheel handling pit. Byreferring to the block plan, it will be noted that the layoutis designed to provide for the necessary terminal facilities aswell as those for general repairs. The shops are located directly opposite the passenger station,which renders convenient the local inspection of through pas-senger equipment while such trains are stopping at the depot.The north end of the property is devoted to terminal purposes,locomotives coming onto the turntable pass directly over th

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