. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . 10 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE. facilities that are part of the titanic coalloading plant was going forward. Athaw house, 420 feet long and forty feetwide, with a capacity of twenty cars,was built. It is of timber construction,concreted both inside and outside, andis thoroughly fireproof. Steam is ob-tained from the power plant, throughan eight inch pipe line 1,800 feet long,and is delivered to radiators on thesecond floor of the thaw house at apressure of 125 pounds. The cold air,by being drawn through the radiators,is heated to a tempera
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . 10 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE. facilities that are part of the titanic coalloading plant was going forward. Athaw house, 420 feet long and forty feetwide, with a capacity of twenty cars,was built. It is of timber construction,concreted both inside and outside, andis thoroughly fireproof. Steam is ob-tained from the power plant, throughan eight inch pipe line 1,800 feet long,and is delivered to radiators on thesecond floor of the thaw house at apressure of 125 pounds. The cold air,by being drawn through the radiators,is heated to a temperature of 220 the cars are frozen solid it takes aboutan hour to thaw them, but under usualwinter weather conditions the thawhouse has a thawing capacity of aboutforty cars an hour. To secure fresh water a well twentyfeet in diameter was sunk to a depthof forty-five feet, and from the bottomof this open well four six-inch wellswere driven to a depth of 100 feet. Forfire fighting a well fifteen feet in diameterwas carried down fourteen feet belowmean low water, a thirty-six
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