. American engineer and railroad journal . air Shop. motor, all of which are mounted overhead upon theroof trusses. Two motors in this shop drive the Sturte-vant fans and two more drive the air compressors which arefitted with automatic devices for regulating the pressure. Thereare no individual motors on the machines of this shop. Adjoining the locomotive shop, and separated from it by abrick wall, is the blacksmith shop, 88 ft. long. A mo-tor drives the tools and another of the same size drives thefans, both being carried on the roof trusses. The blast Isbrought to
. American engineer and railroad journal . air Shop. motor, all of which are mounted overhead upon theroof trusses. Two motors in this shop drive the Sturte-vant fans and two more drive the air compressors which arefitted with automatic devices for regulating the pressure. Thereare no individual motors on the machines of this shop. Adjoining the locomotive shop, and separated from it by abrick wall, is the blacksmith shop, 88 ft. long. A mo-tor drives the tools and another of the same size drives thefans, both being carried on the roof trusses. The blast Isbrought to the forges underground and the smoke is conductedfrom the IS fires to three turrets of 6 fires each and is carriedaway by three stacks. The large forges and the steam ham-mers are served by boom cranes. Another 88 ft. section is devoted to the boiler shop with abrick wall partition between it and the blacksmith shop. Ithas three pits, a through track to the transfer table and thenecessary machinery driven by a motor and a single. opened to pass a truck and material without opening the entiredoor. All the roofs have 5-ply tarred paper, and tar with aheavy coat of gravel on top. The drainage of the grounds isadmirable, as the elevation above the lake is nearly 20 ft. Themain drain is 30 in. in diameter and the two branches 18 and12 in. The roof drainage runs into 8-in. sewer pipes. Theseare placed in ditches about 5 ft. deep and 3 ft. wide, placednear the walls and filled with broken stone. No ice was foundaround the round house last winter, indicating the value ofthis method. The water supply is obtained from a 360-ft. wellsituated between the round house and erecting shop. From thisthe water flows through a siphon into a 30 by 30-ft. siphon is of 5-in. pipe and dips 30 ft. into the well and thesame distance into the reservoir. It comes up to within 4 the surface of the ground. Special care was taken tosecure light through a plentiful supply of sk
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