. American engineer and railroad journal . ant features of this road arephenomenal and rare. The most important of the many improvements now underway upon the P. & L. B. is the new repair-shop Installation atMcKees Rocks, Pa., which is rapidly approaching larger buildings of the locomotive-repair department, in- of ground available has been utilized. The width of the tractwas limited by the main line on the east and other railroadproperty on the west, and the length is limited, but a mostconvenient arrangement of building has been worked out. The combined locomotive erecting and
. American engineer and railroad journal . ant features of this road arephenomenal and rare. The most important of the many improvements now underway upon the P. & L. B. is the new repair-shop Installation atMcKees Rocks, Pa., which is rapidly approaching larger buildings of the locomotive-repair department, in- of ground available has been utilized. The width of the tractwas limited by the main line on the east and other railroadproperty on the west, and the length is limited, but a mostconvenient arrangement of building has been worked out. The combined locomotive erecting and machine shop iisituated to the north of the roundhouses, and the boiler shopand the blacksmith shop are located beyond it and adjacent tothe trestle which carries the Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghl-ogheny Railway, a tributary line, across the shop site. Thelocation of the main erecting shop provides, by virtue of thetransverse arrangement of the pit tracks, easy access forengines entering from the roundhouses; a direct-connecting. VIEW OF PLANT LOOKING EAST AND SHOWING GENERAL CHABACTEK OF THE eluding the combined erecting and machine shop, the boilershop and the blacksmith shop, are ready for occupancy, andthe necessary machinery is being installed. The power planthas been in operation for some time. It will be severalmonths, however, before the shops will be ready for completeoperation in all departments; the storehouse building is notyet completed, and the casting-house has only the foundationlaid at this time. LOCATION OF THE SHOPS. In rebuilding the shops it was thought best to locate themupon the site of the old shops at McKees Rocks, as the mostfavorable point upon the road for the purpose. McKees Rocksis the nearest yard and roundhouse site available to the Pitts-burgh terminal, on account of the limiting conditions of thecountry in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. The Monongahela Riveron one side and a steep bluff several hundred feet high on theother side abso
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