. Railway master mechanic [microform] . into the engine pits. On the approach tracks to the round house is a coal trestlewith 10 5-ton pockets, filled, by gravity, from a storage spaceabove them. It is equipped with a motor driven hoist for pullingloaded cars up the 19 per cent, incline and has a total capacityof about 175 tons of coal. At one end of the coal trestle isthe sand-house and green sand bin. The sand is dried in a sandstove and then raised by compressed air into an elevated dry-sand bin having a capacity for 10 cu. yds. of dry sand. The drysand is delivered to the locomotives by gr
. Railway master mechanic [microform] . into the engine pits. On the approach tracks to the round house is a coal trestlewith 10 5-ton pockets, filled, by gravity, from a storage spaceabove them. It is equipped with a motor driven hoist for pullingloaded cars up the 19 per cent, incline and has a total capacityof about 175 tons of coal. At one end of the coal trestle isthe sand-house and green sand bin. The sand is dried in a sandstove and then raised by compressed air into an elevated dry-sand bin having a capacity for 10 cu. yds. of dry sand. The drysand is delivered to the locomotives by gravity. Between the coal trestle and the round house are located the10-in. water crane, the cinder pit and the depressed track forloading cinders. The depressed track is constructed with con-crete retaining walls, of which one is widened out into a shelfbetween the cinder pit and the depressed track, at the level ofthe cinder pit bottom. This furnishes a walk 4 ft. 3 ins. wide,for the men engaged in loading cinders or cleaningash-pans,. Interior View of Machine and Electing Shop, I. & W. N. R. R. and obviates the necessity for a deep cinder pit or for men goingunderneath the engines. For a cinder pit where the loading i-done by hand, this materially facilitates loading. The rail be-tween the walk and the cinder pit is carried on [-beams, sup-ported at intervals of 7 ft. 5 ins. by concrete piers. MACHINE AND ERECTING SHOP. West of the round house approach tracks is the erecting andmachine shop. This is a brick building 210x70 ft. with con-crete foundations, wooden roof trusses, and concrete floor. Theentire area of the building is served by a 10-ton, 3-motor, i ravel-ing electric crane, arranged so that it can be operated chherfrom the cage, or by pendant cords extending to the floor. The erecting shop, in the south end of the building, has threelongitudinal erecting pits, all served by one transverse drcp pitwith a 30-ton hydro-pneumatic transfer jack. When a locomo-tive enters
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