. American engineer and railroad journal . oner,doctor, who is provided with an emergency hospital fullyequipped, telephone exchange, quarters for the apprentice school,and a meeting room. This storehouse is intended to be the main distributing centerfor all material used on the Western Grand Division of therailroad. On the first floor are located cases for holding thematerial handled in the largest quanties, as well as the receiv-ing and shipping rooms. On the second floor is the stock of sta-tionery and material cases for handling the small stock. Thethird floor is given up to the storage of
. American engineer and railroad journal . oner,doctor, who is provided with an emergency hospital fullyequipped, telephone exchange, quarters for the apprentice school,and a meeting room. This storehouse is intended to be the main distributing centerfor all material used on the Western Grand Division of therailroad. On the first floor are located cases for holding thematerial handled in the largest quanties, as well as the receiv-ing and shipping rooms. On the second floor is the stock of sta-tionery and material cases for handling the small stock. Thethird floor is given up to the storage of material in originalpackages, which is not worked over in the storehouse, or is of abulky nature. Two motor driven elevators are provided, serv- January^ 1911. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. n Furgjice QrlnJsr W~ f~ SArtwurPrMi Wtt OflnJtt —Ctnt. MMh. ^ rnplne UUiea .^ ^^S:.: £«Df 111 ^VOHndcf OrlnJor/uriJIjecVc i».i. > mull rn nrr-i □ e ^5 ■no B»|iiiv uituv 15 Matot Vl 74 Motor MACHINE AND ERECTING SHOP AT HAVELOCK. ing all three floors, one being located in the receiving room onthe first floor and the other in the shipping room. An interesting feature of the design of this building is thatthe form of material case to be used was first adopted and thenthe windows and framing were designed to suit the cases. Thesecases are s ft. in width at the bottom and are separatel by aspace of the same width, making the spacing of windows at loft. centers. The windows themselves are 7 ft. in width and lo-cated directly opposite the aisle between the cases. The heating of this building is by direct radiation in the officesection and by indirect system, having duplicate fans, in thestoreroom section. It is lighted throughout by incandescentlamps. Just to the north of the storehouse, and separated from theplatform on that side by the clearance of one track, is a largecasting platform Go ft. in width and 518 ft. long, built at carfl
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