. Electric railway journal . EVANSTON CARHOUSE—VIEW OF SAND AND COKE BINS delivery track enters the repair shop from the rear ofthe building, and is carried over the basement on aconcrete beam-and-column structure. From this trackcoal may be dumped into the basement through two 24-in. manholes between the rails. The boiler and indirectradiation equipment occupy one corner of the shop floor,the former in the basement and the latter above it on theshop floor. The reinforced concrete sand-receiving bin and sand-drying and storage outfit are quite complete. The for-mer serves to receive sand from
. Electric railway journal . EVANSTON CARHOUSE—VIEW OF SAND AND COKE BINS delivery track enters the repair shop from the rear ofthe building, and is carried over the basement on aconcrete beam-and-column structure. From this trackcoal may be dumped into the basement through two 24-in. manholes between the rails. The boiler and indirectradiation equipment occupy one corner of the shop floor,the former in the basement and the latter above it on theshop floor. The reinforced concrete sand-receiving bin and sand-drying and storage outfit are quite complete. The for-mer serves to receive sand from wagon delivery and islocated immediately back of the storage bay. The bin,of 15-yd. capacity, is of a rectangular section with thefloor sloping to an opening in the rear wall of the car-storage bay. The lowest point of the receiving bin wasso located that sand will flow by gravity to an openingin the wall just above the car-storage bay floor this opening the sand is scooped into the sanddrier or deposited on the
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