. Railway age gazette . e full length, placed 25 ft. center to center in order toprovide ample working space between engines. The center or entrance track is intended for stripping and as-sembling, the two side tracks being the repair tracks; there aretwo stripping and washing pits, each 150 ft. long, in this centertrack. Without encroaching on the space allotted to the boilershop at the south end or driving wheel work at the north end,it is possible to stand 20 engines end to end on these side tracks being two of these cranes. These columns are carried through tothe roof truss, dividing the t
. Railway age gazette . e full length, placed 25 ft. center to center in order toprovide ample working space between engines. The center or entrance track is intended for stripping and as-sembling, the two side tracks being the repair tracks; there aretwo stripping and washing pits, each 150 ft. long, in this centertrack. Without encroaching on the space allotted to the boilershop at the south end or driving wheel work at the north end,it is possible to stand 20 engines end to end on these side tracks being two of these cranes. These columns are carried through tothe roof truss, dividing the truss into two spans. The galleryfloor, extending from the north end of the shop to the boilershop space at the south end, is reinforced concrete slab, sup-ported by I-beam floor joists and steel girders. It projects be-yond the line of columns and is provided with four landings foruse in placing material in the gallery by means of the ten-toncranes, which run on rails 33 ft. 9 in. above the main floor. IWd.»\ Pine I. Top of f
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