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. Railroad construction, theory and practice; a text-book for the use of students in colleges and technical schools, and a hand-book for the use of engineers in field and office . § 384ar YARDS AND TERMINALS. 411 either main track may be directly connected with any platformtrack. The space under the tracks, and at the street level,is utilized for rooms for baggage, mail and express, which arecarried to the track level by elevators, one to each coach cleaning yard has a series of parallel tracks 13 to 18apart between a pair of parallel ladder tracks. The engineyard has a sand
. Railroad construction, theory and practice; a text-book for the use of students in colleges and technical schools, and a hand-book for the use of engineers in field and office . § 384ar YARDS AND TERMINALS. 411 either main track may be directly connected with any platformtrack. The space under the tracks, and at the street level,is utilized for rooms for baggage, mail and express, which arecarried to the track level by elevators, one to each coach cleaning yard has a series of parallel tracks 13 to 18apart between a pair of parallel ladder tracks. The engineyard has a sand and coaling station, ash-pit with ash-car track,oil-house, water tank, engine supply house, turntable, shopand shop-yard tracks. (b) Through terminals. See Fig. 1676, As above, the trainfloor level is above the street level. A passage way runs trans-versely under the tracks, from which two pairs of stairways runin each direction to the station platforms. As before, the bag-gage, mail and express rooms are on the street level, under thetracks, and connect with the platforms by elevators. The twomiddle tracks are main tracks, which may be used by any trains,through freight
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