. American engineer and railroad journal . irely to coach work and has eleven tracks, spaced20 ft., center to center, each one of which will hold twocoaches. The third division, 118 ft. 11 ins. wide, is used as acoach paint shop and has six tracks running through it, eachone of which will hold two coaches. The tender shop at thewest end is 79 ft. 5 ins. wide and is equipped with a shallowpit transfer table, driven by an electric motor, as shown onthe drawing. It has a capacity for fifteen tenders. The tracksjust south of the shop are used for storing tenders. The construction of the building i
. American engineer and railroad journal . irely to coach work and has eleven tracks, spaced20 ft., center to center, each one of which will hold twocoaches. The third division, 118 ft. 11 ins. wide, is used as acoach paint shop and has six tracks running through it, eachone of which will hold two coaches. The tender shop at thewest end is 79 ft. 5 ins. wide and is equipped with a shallowpit transfer table, driven by an electric motor, as shown onthe drawing. It has a capacity for fifteen tenders. The tracksjust south of the shop are used for storing tenders. The construction of the building is clearly shown by thesectional views. The daylighting is splendid, due to the verylarge amount of window space in the side and end walls andto the saw-tooth roof construction. The saw-tooth frames arecarried by the parallel cord trusses, spaced 20 ft., center tocenter, which are supported by the wall columns and a centralrow of columns. A composition roof is laid on 1%-in. sheath-ing. The floor is of concrete with a granitoid finish. The. large doors are arranged to slide upward instead of swinginginward. If the transfer table should, for any reason, be temporarilyput out of service, several of the tracks in the coach, paint andtender shop extend through the shop at the south end andconnect with the yard tracks, and coaches and tenders could,if necessary, be removed over these tracks. A short distancesouth of the paint shop is a small brick building, 32 ft. 10 52 ft. 10 ins., which is used for the storage of paints andoils. The foundations are of concrete and the floor is ofreinforced concrete, with a granitoid wearing surface. Theroof is of Book tile, covered with composition roofing material,and is supported by steel trusses. The passenger truck shopis equipped with a 10-ton electric crane. The wash-room isequipped with expanded metal lockers. The entire buildingis heated by hot air, the fans and heating apparatus beingsupported on platforms placed above the roof truss
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