. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nteresting study. The house is 375 feetin outside diameter, the interior circle be-ing 212 feet in diameter. The inside clear-ance between walls is 81 feet 6 inches, and length of time during which a locomotivemust remain out of service. As most effectually combining the ad-vantages required to meet these conditionsthe Blower System of combined heatingand ventilation was selected and installedin accordance with the plans of the B. Company, of Boston, Mass. Located outside of the
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nteresting study. The house is 375 feetin outside diameter, the interior circle be-ing 212 feet in diameter. The inside clear-ance between walls is 81 feet 6 inches, and length of time during which a locomotivemust remain out of service. As most effectually combining the ad-vantages required to meet these conditionsthe Blower System of combined heatingand ventilation was selected and installedin accordance with the plans of the B. Company, of Boston, Mass. Located outside of the house and fillingthe space between it and the nearby ma-chine shop and storeroom, is the Sturte- sections in three groups and enclosed ina steel-plate casing, rendering the appara-tus at once fireproof and directing the cur-rent of air to the fan under whose actionit moves. Passing upward from the fan the airenters a large horizontal galvanized ironduct which extends to a position midwaybetween the inner and outer circumfer-ences of the roundhouse and therebranches into separate pipes extending in. \N FOR HEATING ROUNDHOUSE. provision is made for 48 stalls, or, includ-ing entrance and exit, 50. As the lengthof the longest locomotive is 62 feet 8J/2inches ample space is thus left around selecting the system of heating, thedesirability was recognized of combiningboth the means of maintaining propertemperature in the building and of rapidlymelting snow and ice from the locomotivesduring the winter season. Upon the rap-idity with which the latter process can beaccomplished must of course depend the vant apparatus, consisting of a steel platefan wheel 12 feet in diameter enclosedin a steel-plate housing with upward dis-charge. To the fan shaft a llH x 16 hori-zontal Sturtevant engine is directly con-nected. This arrangement makes it pos-sible to operate the fan at any desiredspeed and with entire independence of anyother source of motive power. The air is,by means of the f
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