. Railroad structures and estimates . Shelter Platform 50 ft. lg. «f \ ±. Fig. 48. Shelter Station. T. and G. boards, and f-inch finished floor on top, with tar paperbetween, outer frame covered with J-inch rough T. and G. boards,including roof, finished with drop siding and shingles, with tarpaper between. Inside walls and ceiling sheathed with J-inchmatched boards. All woodwork stained outside and inside. SHELTERS. 97 Platform 5 inches above rail, made of 3-inch plank on cedarsleepers, 7-foot centers. Extension roof 6 X 6 posts, 4 X 4 brackets, 6 X 6 runners,rafters and roof finished similar
. Railroad structures and estimates . Shelter Platform 50 ft. lg. «f \ ±. Fig. 48. Shelter Station. T. and G. boards, and f-inch finished floor on top, with tar paperbetween, outer frame covered with J-inch rough T. and G. boards,including roof, finished with drop siding and shingles, with tarpaper between. Inside walls and ceiling sheathed with J-inchmatched boards. All woodwork stained outside and inside. SHELTERS. 97 Platform 5 inches above rail, made of 3-inch plank on cedarsleepers, 7-foot centers. Extension roof 6 X 6 posts, 4 X 4 brackets, 6 X 6 runners,rafters and roof finished similar to ^_ * =_ _12 6 Seat Seat V --?—- Shelter10xl2 ^ Platform 60 ft. lg. Fig. 49. Shelter Station. Platform Shelter.—Approximate cost per running foot $8 to $12. Umbrella type of platform shelter 16 feet wide, with main posts14-foot centers, ridge plate 12 X 2, rafters and ties 3 X 6 with4 X 3 supports, and 4 X 6 run beams, roof covered withlj-inch matched boarding, and galvanized iron, ready roofing orshingles on top; the main posts are supported on round, flattedcedar sills about 6 feet below the platform, braced both sides, andheld laterally by the platform joists. The platform is made of3-inch plank on top of 11 X 3 joists on split cedar sills at about7-foot centers. 98 RAILROAD STRUCTURES AND ESTIMATES. Stations. The following frame stations range in price from $1000 to$3500, which is about the average run of ordinary way are not submitted as ideal schemes, but simply as sug-gestions as to size and cost in a general way, that may be variedas desired.
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