. The elements of railroad engineering . for a clusterof tracks as for a cluster of yards. This arrangement will inter-fere less wdth general terminology than to change the whole yardto cluster. A word of one syllable would be better, and the useof plot is suggested. Thus, there would be the terminal, divisionor station yards, and the classification, advance, or storage plotsin those yards. But perhaps classification, advance, or storagetracks will answer as well. The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of WayAssociation recognizes yard as applying to the whole system oftracks, and al
. The elements of railroad engineering . for a clusterof tracks as for a cluster of yards. This arrangement will inter-fere less wdth general terminology than to change the whole yardto cluster. A word of one syllable would be better, and the useof plot is suggested. Thus, there would be the terminal, divisionor station yards, and the classification, advance, or storage plotsin those yards. But perhaps classification, advance, or storagetracks will answer as well. The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of WayAssociation recognizes yard as applying to the whole system oftracks, and also to the several groups themselves, — as, the yard,departure or forwarding yard, team delivery yard, etc. io6 SIDE TRACKS AND YARDS Water Terminals. — At important coast terminals, provisionmust be made for trans-shipment to and from vessels, and atsuch points as New York City, actually reached by the freighttracks of but two railroad systems, while the opposite Jerseyshore is reached by many more, provision must be made for trans-. Harlem River Fig. 58 a fer across the separating body of water. The method of trans-shipment depends on the commodity. Light merchandise isusually unloaded from or loaded into cars run out on a pier insideor alongside a freight shed in which the merchandise is storedfor loading to cars or vessels. Grain is handled through eleva-tors directly from boats to cars, or vice versa, or it is handled WATER TERMINALS lO/ through floating elevators or lighters which may load to the vesselin the stream. On the Pacific coast grain is handled in sacksinstead of loose as in the Eastern States. Freight for New York received on the Jersey coast is trans-ferred across the river on barges or floats, the cars being run onto and off the floats over transfer bridges whose inclination maybe varied to suit the state of the tide. Small yards are necessaryon the New York side. Their shape and size will depend on theavailable land and amount of business to be done. They
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