. American engineer and railroad journal . VIEW IN CIRCLE OF DLOOMINGTON ROUNDHOUSE. Dec, 1910. page 469.) All piping from the boiler washing sys-tem, as well as the water, compressed air, etc., with the excep-tion of the blowing off pipe, which is carried overhead, are in-stalled in the pipe trench of concrete running around the crcleat the inner ends of the pits. There is a separate fire line, con-. BIRD S-EVE VIEW OF \L ClNtiER PIT. nected to the city water system. Having six-teen two-inch plugs distributed throughoutthe roundhouse and vicinity. Artificial illu-mination is provid
. American engineer and railroad journal . VIEW IN CIRCLE OF DLOOMINGTON ROUNDHOUSE. Dec, 1910. page 469.) All piping from the boiler washing sys-tem, as well as the water, compressed air, etc., with the excep-tion of the blowing off pipe, which is carried overhead, are in-stalled in the pipe trench of concrete running around the crcleat the inner ends of the pits. There is a separate fire line, con-. BIRD S-EVE VIEW OF \L ClNtiER PIT. nected to the city water system. Having six-teen two-inch plugs distributed throughoutthe roundhouse and vicinity. Artificial illu-mination is provided by 250-watt tungstenlamps, two of which are suspended from theroof over the spaces between stalls. Forlighting the turntable and tracks outside thereare four flaming arc lamps mounted on wallbracket fixtures on the inner circle of the house. On the 100 ft. deck type turntable there isprovided an electric turntable tractor fur-nished by George P. Nichols and Brother,which utilizes a 20 motor of thecrane type. This apparatus also includes anelectrically driven winch for handling deadlocomotives. On each of the four tracks leading to theroundhouse are provided cinder pits of largesize, arrangement being made for mechanicallyhandling the cinders. These four tracks arein pairs, between which there is a track lo-cated on the same level for cinder cars. Eachpair of tracks are really serv
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