. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . water is pump-ed from a 5 in. artesian well, near thepower house into an elevated 10,000 gal-lon tank. The power house is 125 ft. by lOi ft.,and is equipped with five 250 & Wilcox boilers, two. firepumps and two pumps for power andshop purposes. The pumps capacityof 1,000 gallons per minute each, two500 K. W. units driven by vertical November. 1906. RAILWAY ANO LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 493 siiiglcCylidcr open typo engines. Thereis also a 50 K. W. unit for niglit sery-ice. The engine
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . water is pump-ed from a 5 in. artesian well, near thepower house into an elevated 10,000 gal-lon tank. The power house is 125 ft. by lOi ft.,and is equipped with five 250 & Wilcox boilers, two. firepumps and two pumps for power andshop purposes. The pumps capacityof 1,000 gallons per minute each, two500 K. W. units driven by vertical November. 1906. RAILWAY ANO LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 493 siiiglcCylidcr open typo engines. Thereis also a 50 K. W. unit for niglit sery-ice. The engines are non-condensing,the exhaust steam being for heating theshops in the winter, in connection witlithe Sturtevant system, at five poundspressure, the condensed water beingpumped back to the apparatus, and the north side of the hicomotive sliop andthe erecting work is on tlie soutli sidoand across the east end-Tube work is very quickly and expe-ditiously done on those engines whichcome in for that purpose, and as theWinnipeg shops are in the bad waterdistrict there is a good deal of this work. TUBE SHOP. CANADIAN P.\CIFIC RAILWAY. WINNIPEG, MAN. engnie room has a fifteen-ton haniipower chain sprocket traveling crane,46 ft. span and 25 ft. lift. The locomotive and machine shopbuilding is 164 ft. by 792 ft. and has acapacity for general repairs to locomo-tives of about twenty-five per is equipped with all the latest ma-chinery for general repair work, and hasa riveting tower with a twenty ton riv-eting crane and five ton auxiliaryhoist. There are two 75^ ton and one21 ton three motor electric travelingcranes, each 56 ft. span and 27 ft. lift,traveling the whole length of the so-ton trolleys are used for strip-ping the locomotives and a transfertable with 52 ft. span, running for alength of 440 ft. in the center of theshop, is used for placing the locomo-tives and tenders on the diflferent pits,A 70 ft. turntable is situated at themain shop entrance. The eight tr
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