. Railway age . UHed for HtoraKe. The total ca-pacity of these four trackK from a point east of the frelRhl houseto the Bwllch<« kIvIhk access to the team tracks is 114 cars. Thisteam track yard Is placed between the freight house and the storageyard and is arranged witli double blind-end tracks with a screeningdriveway approach to one side of each track. These have a totalcapacity of 120 cara, and beyond, between the loam tracks and the in that, as already • :.-re will be very little breaking up of the trains. On ■ a the west the trains come in over the passing track :i -i.; lead and in up
. Railway age . UHed for HtoraKe. The total ca-pacity of these four trackK from a point east of the frelRhl houseto the Bwllch<« kIvIhk access to the team tracks is 114 cars. Thisteam track yard Is placed between the freight house and the storageyard and is arranged witli double blind-end tracks with a screeningdriveway approach to one side of each track. These have a totalcapacity of 120 cara, and beyond, between the loam tracks and the in that, as already • :.-re will be very little breaking up of the trains. On ■ a the west the trains come in over the passing track :i -i.; lead and in upon the ea^tbound tracks. The engine lb cui off from the train and pai-ses on directlyto the roundhouse. The caboose Is cut off and hauled back andthence around the running track to the south to the caboose tracks,and whatever classification may be needed will be done over tli«latter at the east and the running track extending down past thefreight station, the cripples being taken out and dropped in on the. Plan of Freight Yard and Station at Roanoke, Va.; Virginian Railway. roundhouse, is a storage yard composed of 18 blind tracks servedby a single ladder track and having a capacity of 300 cars. Aswill be seen from the engraving, the switching lead for all of thesetracks Is one running parallel to the main line and extending downInto the eustbound yard, where it Is to be used as far as the necessi-ties of the string of cars being handled will require. The roundhouse Is to be in the angle formed by the line ofJefferson street and Prospect avenue. At present a house of 10stalls will be erected but provision will be made for extending itby 20 stalls, making it 30 in all, as soon as It may be needed. Thecoal trestle, water column and sand i)ocket8 are placed between theIncoming and outRolng tracks, with aah pits set In the incomingtracks, and these are doubled at that point. The coal pockets havea length of 200 ft. and stand 30 ft. above the tracks, being reachedover a trestl
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