. Railway mechanical engineer . Air equal width. The roof has six scjuare double monitors, 10ft. high extending across the building, the extreme height atthe gables being 51 ft. and at the sides 42 ft. Each of thetwo side bays has four tracks with a capacity of eight carseach, on which the repair work is done, and two standardgage material tracks. The repair tracks are spaced 18 ft. apart, except where the supply tracks run between them, inwhich case the distance is increased to 22 ft. The center bay is used for straightening, fabricating andmachining, all the machine tools being located in th
. Railway mechanical engineer . Air equal width. The roof has six scjuare double monitors, 10ft. high extending across the building, the extreme height atthe gables being 51 ft. and at the sides 42 ft. Each of thetwo side bays has four tracks with a capacity of eight carseach, on which the repair work is done, and two standardgage material tracks. The repair tracks are spaced 18 ft. apart, except where the supply tracks run between them, inwhich case the distance is increased to 22 ft. The center bay is used for straightening, fabricating andmachining, all the machine tools being located in this sec-tion. A supply track extends along the east side of this bayfor its entire length and a short stub track runs in at thenorth end. East of the main shop building are the office,store room, power house and transformer building and theair brake building. Power for the shops is secured from a high tension powerline at 13,000 volts and is transformed to 440 volts forpower and 110 volts for lighting. The shops are heated from. Parts Formed on tlie Biiildozer .[ Ijattery of three locomotive boilers, two of 150-hp. and oneof 100-hp. capacity. A vacuum return system is used, theradiating pipes being placed directly on the walls and col-umns. The compressed air is furnished by two Ingersoll-Rand electrically driven compressors, each having a capacityof 1,500 cu. ft. per minute. Air lines are installed along bothsides and also between the center tracks in each working oil is piped from the storage tanks, located adjacent tothe store-house, to the plate furnaces in the center bay andto the stationary rivet furnaces located in the side bays. Allthe furnaces are also supplied with natural gas, which canbe used in case of a shortage of fuel oil. Air for the blastis furnished by electrically driven blowers, one located in 315 316 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 93, Nu. 6 each bay. The lighting system Consists of incandescent There are two traverse tracks crossing all the suppl
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