. The street railway review . re also probablythe main repair shop will be finally locat-ed. This 28-acre yard has also on ittwo springs which furnish gallonsof water daily. A siding from the Mis-souri Pacific runs into the yard and pow-er house. Cars are also housed at threeother points on the system. Visitors willfind a trip to this yard of interest. Amongthe first things to attract attention is theshop for turning out special work. Ad-joining the shop, which itself has con-siderable floor space, is a yard largeenough to lay out any piece of work thecompany may need. This yard wasmade
. The street railway review . re also probablythe main repair shop will be finally locat-ed. This 28-acre yard has also on ittwo springs which furnish gallonsof water daily. A siding from the Mis-souri Pacific runs into the yard and pow-er house. Cars are also housed at threeother points on the system. Visitors willfind a trip to this yard of interest. Amongthe first things to attract attention is theshop for turning out special work. Ad-joining the shop, which itself has con-siderable floor space, is a yard largeenough to lay out any piece of work thecompany may need. This yard wasmade suitable for its purposes by ballasting with cindersand laying ties in the ballast at the usual distance apartand carefully leveled. The manufacture of special workis in charge of T. L. Hanley, civil engineer for thatbranch of work, and some excellent designs have beenturned out. The switch now used, an engraving ofwhich is here shown, has a cast steel tongue and centerand is designed so that the first wheel that passes over. E. WHITAKER cast steel is cast in St. Louis from patterns made at thecompanys main repair shops. It is said to give a lifefully equal to that of the surrounding rail. Switches foruse in car houses and yards are now made of T rail withcast steel centers high enough so that the wheel flangesride the centers and relieve some of the pounding of thefrog. The shop equipment needed for this is very simpie, requiring only four machines, as follows: Onevariable stroke rail bender and punch combined, one cir-cular saw, one planer and one drill. As said beforethe amount of special work required by the peculiarlocal conditions in St. Louis is somethingenormous. The compan}- has two power new one, located in the yards, is ofa present capacity of 1,500 kilowatts, inthree 500-kiIowatt generators driven b}-4}^-foot belts from Porter-Allen mediumspeed engines. The engine room is 100feet square, with concrete floor and adouble roof 24 feet above the floor. Thelo
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