. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . which is as nearly perfect a record as themost skillful operation can effect. It is doubtful indeed if the work could \I \I\ I LILDING with a width of 310 feet, and 150 feethigh. Below the street level the length is745 feet, 455 feet wide, and 45 feet deep, March, 1913, RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 85 making a distance of 195 feet from thelower tracks to the roof. In all 118,000 tonsof steel was used in the construction. Theinterlocking switch and signal tower has760 levers, 400 of which are used on the out creating a room that would ratherstagger


. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . which is as nearly perfect a record as themost skillful operation can effect. It is doubtful indeed if the work could \I \I\ I LILDING with a width of 310 feet, and 150 feethigh. Below the street level the length is745 feet, 455 feet wide, and 45 feet deep, March, 1913, RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 85 making a distance of 195 feet from thelower tracks to the roof. In all 118,000 tonsof steel was used in the construction. Theinterlocking switch and signal tower has760 levers, 400 of which are used on the out creating a room that would ratherstagger the human at tirst sight of , then, is the heart of the the south side of this room are themany ways that lead to and from Forty-.


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