. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ny one shop or depart-ment has been provided for without dan-ger of interfering with or cramping anyother. The tracks leading to and beside the ing are done. It is claimed for tliis formof construction that engnics can be veryeconomically handled inasmuch as thereis only the minimum lift required, everytime an engine is moved. This not onlyreduces risk of accident by avoiding ahigh lift, but the power expended in theoperation is probably the least requiredof any system where lifting is done.
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ny one shop or depart-ment has been provided for without dan-ger of interfering with or cramping anyother. The tracks leading to and beside the ing are done. It is claimed for tliis formof construction that engnics can be veryeconomically handled inasmuch as thereis only the minimum lift required, everytime an engine is moved. This not onlyreduces risk of accident by avoiding ahigh lift, but the power expended in theoperation is probably the least requiredof any system where lifting is done. En-trance may be had at one end and de-parture at the other, so that the paralleltrack system does not cause any inter-ference with incoming or outgoing en-gines. Boilers enter the shop at one end,while the products of the foundry andsmithy enter it from the other end. In connection with the passenger carshops is a 75-ft. transfer table which islocated much nearer one shop than theother, thus giving very valuable spacewith parallel tracks in the rear of one ofthe buildings. The cars are moved upon. Photo. URQUHART CASTLE. NESS, RAILWAY. IV/iyte, Inverness. lished in our December, 1902, issue. Atpresent locomotive repairs and buildingis done at Delorimer avenue, and the carwork at Hochelaga, a suburb of Mon-treal, and the object of the new shopsis to concentrate in one plant of ampleproportions and modern equipment andtinder one head, the work which is nowdone in overcrowded workshops and atseparate points. The total floor space of the buildingsis about 75,000 sq. ft. which amounts tosomething over 17 The buildingsare to be of pressed brick, on rubblestone and concrete foundation. Theroof trusses will be steel for the locomo-tive shop, the smithy and the foundry,while the car department buildings willhave combination trusses, though thecolumns in all the buildings will be madeof structural steel. The hot blast sys-tem of heating will be used throughout. v
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