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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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transfer table, or by industrialtracks, it is accessible to the coach department, where theleast output is required. The tracks on the shop site are conveniently arranged forthe receiving of all material, intercommunication of dif-ferent departments, and for the removal of the output.A Y track is provided close to the machine and erectingshop, leading from one serving track on to the transfertable, for the purpose of turning engines. The present machine and erecting shop and boiler andtank shop are served by the transfer table, which is com-mon both to the locomotive and coach departments. Thismakes a very economical design up to the limit providedin the layout; future extensions being accomplished withoutmaterial increase in the length of the transfer table pit. The coach repair shop is convenient to the coach paintshop, and by means of the transfer table and industrialtracks, sufficiently convenient to the locomotive departmentfor such material as will be furnished from this source.
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General View of the Springfield Shops, Cooling Pond in the Foreground. Arrangement of Present and Ultimate Plant- The future freight car department is conveniently grouped The arrangement of the plant provides convenient group- in that the freight car repair shop and new freight car ing of the buildings included in the present construction. shop are both convenient to the planing mill and lumber The growth of these and the addition of future departments yard; material entering yard from the east, passing through will not in any way detract from its arrangements and such the dry kiln, dry lumber storage planing mill, new freight additions will be built as economically located from every car shop and new freight car paint shop, in continuous operating standpoint as in the original plan. The buildings unidirectional movement to completion. common to each department are located in the heart of theplant. These consist of the store house, power house andblacksmith shop. The store house is c

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