. American engineer and railroad journal . 303 ft. 8 ins. The twoportions of the building are divided into three bays by twolongitudinal rows of columns. The roofs over the central bayare higher than those of the side bays, giving clere story monitor 14 ft. wide extends nearly the full length of eachcentral bay. Store-Hoi se.—This is a specially well arranged building. Itoccupies 85 x 594 ft. of ground area, and has brick has threp rows of wooden columns supporting the roof and gineeb, 1903, page 16). The weight of the Northern Pacificengines is not quite as great as that of t


. American engineer and railroad journal . 303 ft. 8 ins. The twoportions of the building are divided into three bays by twolongitudinal rows of columns. The roofs over the central bayare higher than those of the side bays, giving clere story monitor 14 ft. wide extends nearly the full length of eachcentral bay. Store-Hoi se.—This is a specially well arranged building. Itoccupies 85 x 594 ft. of ground area, and has brick has threp rows of wooden columns supporting the roof and gineeb, 1903, page 16). The weight of the Northern Pacificengines is not quite as great as that of the Santa Fe, and theheating surface is ft. for the Northern Pacific as com-pared with 5,366 sq. ft. for the Santa Fe; the latter being nextid the largest ever used on a locomotive. It is in the designof the boiler that the greatest interest in the new NorthernPacific locomotives renters, because this boiler marks a rad-ical step toward increased facility of circulation of water atan expense of both grate area and heating I l:i imi r CAB SHOP, Mlnw I also supporting a platform, which does not extend the fullwidth of the building, but forms a gallery for the storage oflight articles. Elevators furnish facilities for handling thismaterial, and the gallery windows are 13 ft. 6 ins. above thefloor, leaving ample space below for the construction 12 ft. monitor extends the full length of the building, light-ing the gallery. Dry Kilns.—The soft wood dry kiln is built in four com-partments, each 19 x 85 ft. TV- bard wood kiln has one com-partment of this size and om length, but 21 , and these W« rith the Mortem system by theA EL Andrews Company of Obi ago. The kllnH are of brickwith division walls of wood roofed with gravel The end openings are covered by canvu dooi operated by rolling uptaking the place of end wall*. The location of hese kilns wasnhown on the general plan llustrated In the December numberof lant year The remaining buildings, drainage,


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