. The New York passenger terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad : (under construction) : brief description of the main features of the engineering work . o CO J a 0. STATION BUILDING STEEL TT^HE work of designing the station building steel-^ has occupied several years. The necessities oftrack and train clearances, as well as all the othervaried requirements of the station and architecturaldemands, has resulted in the production of a remarkablyintricate steel framework, supported on 650 columns,the maximum load on some of these columns beingabout 1,600 tons each. The total weight of steel in the
. The New York passenger terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad : (under construction) : brief description of the main features of the engineering work . o CO J a 0. STATION BUILDING STEEL TT^HE work of designing the station building steel-^ has occupied several years. The necessities oftrack and train clearances, as well as all the othervaried requirements of the station and architecturaldemands, has resulted in the production of a remarkablyintricate steel framework, supported on 650 columns,the maximum load on some of these columns beingabout 1,600 tons each. The total weight of steel in the structure approxi-mates 25,000 tons. The shop drawings required areupwards of 6,000 and on account of the change in con-tractors for fabrication, while the work was under way,the shop drawings made by the first contractor havebeen almost entirely remade by the second to suitdifferent shop tools and methods. The checking of these drawings has been a formid-able task for the desig-nino- 17. Duct Work (J p p i:) s i t e the T h i r t >• - f i r s t St r e e t S e r \- i c e B n i 1 d i n i^D n r i n j< Construction
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