. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he terminal, was inpast years formerly a part of the Hudson River of this river bed had been filled in by erosion anddeposits by the river and some of it had been filled in byartificial means. The borings taken over this area showed jack is its control by engine house mechanics through theuse of a portable electric push button switch box. The superstructure of the engine house building con-sists of brick walls and timber roof truss customary monitor roof is supported
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he terminal, was inpast years formerly a part of the Hudson River of this river bed had been filled in by erosion anddeposits by the river and some of it had been filled in byartificial means. The borings taken over this area showed jack is its control by engine house mechanics through theuse of a portable electric push button switch box. The superstructure of the engine house building con-sists of brick walls and timber roof truss customary monitor roof is supported by sixty-foottrusses in the twenty-five stall section and seventy-two-foot trusses in the 150-foot section. Square type smoke-stacks are used throughout the house to care for thesmoke and steam exhausts. In the monitor sectiontwenty-four-inch ventilators are installed, with eighteen-inch ventilators in the head-room section circling thehouse. To the north of the engine house is a separatetwo story building eighty-five by ninety feet, in whichare located the heating apparatus for the engine house,. New 100 Foot Turntable of the New York Central Lines at Harmon, N. Y. a five-foot layer of soft river mud from twenty to thirtyfeet below the surface, which necessitated the construc-tion of a foundation for the enginehouse which wouldextend into the underlying gravel formation. To accom-plish this the structure has been built on more than onethousand concrete piles. The driving of these piles was in itself a noteworthyengineering achievement. As worked out by New YorkCentral engineers and the contractors, steel castings tocover the full length of the pile were first driven andtilled with concrete. As soon as the concrete was suf-ficiently set the castings were lifted and driven at otherpoints. With this foundation completed, the westerly portionof the main building including engine storage pits ofreinforced concrete were carried directly on these foundation for the drop-pi
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