. American engineer and railroad journal . joints. The amount of material used in the construction of thebuildings will give some idea of their size, and is as follows:22,000 barrels of Portland cement, 20,000 cubic yards of crushedstone, 5,000,000 feet of lumber, 6,000,000 bricks, 2,400 tonsof structural steel, 150 tons of cast iron, 64,000 square feet offactory ribbed glass, 20,000 feet of woven wire glass skylights,and 420,000 square feet of composition roof. MACHINE, EBECTINO AND BOILEB SHOPS. The building which contains these departments is underone roof and covers about five and a half a
. American engineer and railroad journal . joints. The amount of material used in the construction of thebuildings will give some idea of their size, and is as follows:22,000 barrels of Portland cement, 20,000 cubic yards of crushedstone, 5,000,000 feet of lumber, 6,000,000 bricks, 2,400 tonsof structural steel, 150 tons of cast iron, 64,000 square feet offactory ribbed glass, 20,000 feet of woven wire glass skylights,and 420,000 square feet of composition roof. MACHINE, EBECTINO AND BOILEB SHOPS. The building which contains these departments is underone roof and covers about five and a half acres; it is 273 feetwide and 860 feet long inside, and is the largest shop of thiskind in the United States under one roof, except for the Sayreshop of the Lehigh Valley, which is 360 feet wide and 748 feetlong. The Sayre locomotive shop has the boiler shop at oneend and two erecting shops, one on either side of the machineshop. Between the machine shop and each erecting shop at November, 1905. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 393. INTEBIOB VIE\ LOCOMOTIVE SHOP.
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