. The railroad and engineering journal . Lecomte, Chiel Engineer of theWestern Railroad, and the road was built under the im-mediate direction of M. Clerc, Chief Engineer of Construc-tion for that Company. THE USE OF WOOD IN RAILROAD STRUC-TURES. By Ch.^rles Davis Jameson, C. E. (Copyright, 1889, by M. N. Forney.) {Continued from page 283.) CHAPTER STATIONS. The requirements of small stations are usually about asfollows : There should be one large room that can be usedfor freight and baggage ; an office in which the agentkeeps his books and performs his clerical duties ; a wait-ing-ro
. The railroad and engineering journal . Lecomte, Chiel Engineer of theWestern Railroad, and the road was built under the im-mediate direction of M. Clerc, Chief Engineer of Construc-tion for that Company. THE USE OF WOOD IN RAILROAD STRUC-TURES. By Ch.^rles Davis Jameson, C. E. (Copyright, 1889, by M. N. Forney.) {Continued from page 283.) CHAPTER STATIONS. The requirements of small stations are usually about asfollows : There should be one large room that can be usedfor freight and baggage ; an office in which the agentkeeps his books and performs his clerical duties ; a wait-ing-room for the accommodation of passengers, and awomens toilet. Of course these different requirementscan be contracted or expanded to almost any degree, tosuit the special requirements of any one station. The frei;;ht-room is required for storing the freight thatis received for sending away, and also that which is await-ing delivery at the place where the station is. It must alsobe of sufficient size to allow the receiving and storing of. securing sufficient width for a proper slope. These walls,however, present no very special features, and are merelyremarkable for their extent and cost. The stations on the line also, while involving consider-able expense for their construction, and while they are, likemost of the Raris stations, solid and elegant buildings,present no features requiring special notice. There were necessarily made on the line several gradecrossings of streets at points where they could not be avoid-ed ; these grade crossings are all provided with watchmenand with gates worked in the usual way by hand, with theexception of the crossingof the Avenue Eugenie at St. Cloud,where there are rolling gates worked from a distance bywire ropes ; these gates are kept in equilibrium by coun- passengers baggage, and usually some portion of thisroom is partitioned off for the storage of the express mat-ter, and for the use of the express companies. At anystation where considerab
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