. American engineer and railroad journal . FREIGHT SHOP. The freight shop was built many years ago and is in the formof a round-house, the outer circle of which is 434 ft. in diameter,and having an open inner space 285 ft. in diameter, containing a105 ft. turntable. The turntable is driven by a steam engine,and a small switch engine does the shifting. The width of thebuilding inside is about 65 ft. It has 40 divisions or of these are used for repair purposes; three are inthe form of tunnels and are used as running tracks; the re-maining three divisions have two tracks only,
. American engineer and railroad journal . FREIGHT SHOP. The freight shop was built many years ago and is in the formof a round-house, the outer circle of which is 434 ft. in diameter,and having an open inner space 285 ft. in diameter, containing a105 ft. turntable. The turntable is driven by a steam engine,and a small switch engine does the shifting. The width of thebuilding inside is about 65 ft. It has 40 divisions or of these are used for repair purposes; three are inthe form of tunnels and are used as running tracks; the re-maining three divisions have two tracks only, and the space aboutthem is devoted to the stores department for the storage of heating forges are placed alongside two or three of thetracks upon which repairs to steel cars may be made. Cars arealso repaired in the open space between the building and theturntable. STRAIGHTENING PARTS AT THE BLACKSMITH The badly damaged steel parts are taken from the steel carshop, the freight shop and the west bound repair yard to the
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