. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . End Section of Roundhouse. finally goes to a large tank (shown in theplan of machine shop), where it heats thewater used for washing boilers ; it can beblown direct to the tank or out into the at-mosphere, at will. This is a i,ooo per cent,improvement on the usual ear-splitting,dirt-spreading plan of putting a washerin the whistle and howling themoff. The ash and clinker pit is a model. It isbuilt high, the track standing up on ironsupports ; the sides are open, and a solidbrick paving gives room to get
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . End Section of Roundhouse. finally goes to a large tank (shown in theplan of machine shop), where it heats thewater used for washing boilers ; it can beblown direct to the tank or out into the at-mosphere, at will. This is a i,ooo per cent,improvement on the usual ear-splitting,dirt-spreading plan of putting a washerin the whistle and howling themoff. The ash and clinker pit is a model. It isbuilt high, the track standing up on ironsupports ; the sides are open, and a solidbrick paving gives room to get ashes outto the side and away from the pit regard-less of whether engines are on pit or not,and the side is high enough to facilitateloading into cars on a lower track. The shop is 47x100 and divided up asshown on plan. A neat little machineshop occupies about a third of the build-ing ; there are an ample smith shop, boilerhouse, engine house and tank room, allunder one roof. There are enough tools to do the runningrepairs on a lot of engines, the policy of. ^^^a --llif Blow Off,^\_0 Healer oJTdnk 4Oweiflow to Drain V -=qt}=¥Mh -^ =it4tt=iHM—HH^^-^IH IgNiieaLjthe Bolt Cutter |(°) ^ m(SoiF^HF=\ »WM iiiiIhh II wrn ii w
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