. American engineer and railroad journal . ERECTING SHOP AND MACHINE SHOP HOOF TEDSSES. * ^ ffai/fofl ^ abotv f^oor. ENLARGED SECTION THROUGH PIT WALLS. square edge maple flooring. The floor boards are not tonguedon the edges, which renders it easy to malie repairs. The locomotive shop combines under one roof two bays, with 35 pits each, and a central CO-ft. machine-shop bay, the building being 740 by 204 ft. The pits are 45 , with a space of 10 ft. to the outer wall and 15 ft. to theintermediate crane columns. The pits are 2 ft. 6 ins. deep and4 ft. wide. They are of con
. American engineer and railroad journal . ERECTING SHOP AND MACHINE SHOP HOOF TEDSSES. * ^ ffai/fofl ^ abotv f^oor. ENLARGED SECTION THROUGH PIT WALLS. square edge maple flooring. The floor boards are not tonguedon the edges, which renders it easy to malie repairs. The locomotive shop combines under one roof two bays, with 35 pits each, and a central CO-ft. machine-shop bay, the building being 740 by 204 ft. The pits are 45 , with a space of 10 ft. to the outer wall and 15 ft. to theintermediate crane columns. The pits are 2 ft. 6 ins. deep and4 ft. wide. They are of concrete, with crowned bottoms. drain longitudinally, the entire plant being drained to 40and 50-ft. wells to natural fissures in the underlying rock, lead-ing eventually to the Schuylkill River. All pipes and electriccables enter the building from the power-house in a largetunnel, the location of which beneath the shop floor is indi-cated in the large plan. This will be illustrated in detail the main tunnel the cables are placed in conduits of vitrifiedclay. This main tunnel extends across the sh
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