. Building and repairing railways . CONSTRUCTION 281 rail and making them of vitrified brick; however,very good results have been secured with smalllimestone screenings; they pack hard and wearwell and can be cheaply repaired. Fig. 192 illustrates a stock pen used by a &—3S§i Cf fV fo • •.< 5 rJ-b * R£ Ct ¥ i NC P£/V Fig. 192. PLAN OF STOCK —Where stock pens are built on an extensive scale (as at pointswhere lar^e shipments are made), the alleyway should be 12 feet wide, so thatteams can be driven through with loads of hay, and the feed be distributedin the receiving or feeding pen
. Building and repairing railways . CONSTRUCTION 281 rail and making them of vitrified brick; however,very good results have been secured with smalllimestone screenings; they pack hard and wearwell and can be cheaply repaired. Fig. 192 illustrates a stock pen used by a &—3S§i Cf fV fo • •.< 5 rJ-b * R£ Ct ¥ i NC P£/V Fig. 192. PLAN OF STOCK —Where stock pens are built on an extensive scale (as at pointswhere lar^e shipments are made), the alleyway should be 12 feet wide, so thatteams can be driven through with loads of hay, and the feed be distributedin the receiving or feeding pens. country stock buyer; provision is made for re-ceiving pens, feeding pens with sheds and load-ing pens; the addition of the second runway B enables two cars to be loaded at one time. Thisplan can be varied to suit t lie volume of business; where range cattle are to be shipped it will benecessary to add a fence C. I), to enable theherders to get the cattle into the pens. 282 BUILDING AND REPAIRING RAILWAYS. \0 0 :. STANDARDS OF CONSTRUCTION. 283 Fig. 193 is a plan of a roundhouse and smallrepair shops. The roundhouse is heated by indi-rect radiation from a coil of steam pipes placedin the blower room; the air is driven by a blowerthrough the coils of steam pipes and conveyedto the roundhouse in overhead sheet iron pipesand discharged in the pits under the is made by a wrought iron pipe placedoverhead and steam hose couplings to take thelive steam from a locomotive which has justcome in and convey it to one that is about to goout. The hydraulic pit for removing drivers isreally a part of the machine shop. In the blowerroom are placed air compressors for handling thesand and operating the ash lift. Fire hydrantsH are placed in each stall. -/V-G CENTER of Sioc Trhck Pig. 194. OF BRICK STOREIIOUSK KOlt SFPIMMS. 284 BUILDING AND REPAIRING RAILWAYS. A brick storehouse is illustrated by Fig. oil room is paved with stone flagging, andno
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