. Railroad construction, theory and practice; a text-book for the use of students in colleges and technical schools . ashes are dumped from the engine. Thisconveyor carries the ashes to a place where the conveyor bucketsdump them into a waiting gondola car, which when full is hauledaway. 388 RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION. §360. 360. Oil houses * should be fireproof and should be separatedfrom other buildings. Above ground there should be a masonrybuilding, 20X40, or perhaps less, with one fireproof door andone or more windows, having wire glass. This room contains arow of pumps, one for each kind of o
. Railroad construction, theory and practice; a text-book for the use of students in colleges and technical schools . ashes are dumped from the engine. Thisconveyor carries the ashes to a place where the conveyor bucketsdump them into a waiting gondola car, which when full is hauledaway. 388 RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION. §360. 360. Oil houses * should be fireproof and should be separatedfrom other buildings. Above ground there should be a masonrybuilding, 20X40, or perhaps less, with one fireproof door andone or more windows, having wire glass. This room contains arow of pumps, one for each kind of oil; also a series of inlet pipesin the floor leading to tanks in the basement. The floor shouldbe 4 feet above the track rail outside and there should be a COMPOSITION ROOJ REINFORCED CONCRETE y,, 9 I-BEAM ABOUT 6% FT. CENTERS 08 %^ REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS. ^ * -WIRE GLASS WINDOW I -200- I REINFORCED CONCRETEv r^-r^l 4J^ y OPENING FOR VENTILATIONWITH WIRE NETTING. 1^Mi 13 WALL .SLIDING DOORTIN CLAD SLOPE-Vz FOR PIPING OILFROM TANK CARS. ONE PIPE FOR EACH KIND OF OIL. CONCRETE F^:>:;:|-----V- ■f\ I. Fig. 161.—Cross-section of Typical Oil-house. platform between the house and the track. The storage spacefor oil is entirely in the basement and includes the area under thefloor and also the area under the platform. The height dependson the required storage space for tanks. A series of pipes, onefor each kind of oil, pass through the outer vertical face of theplatform, for the convenient emptying of tank cars into thestorage tanks. The inlet pipes through the floor are only forsmall quantities of oil drawn from barrels. The delivery system from the storage tanks to the faucetsshould be such that the oil can be delivered quickly and measuredautomatically. The delivery should also be such that there will * Condensed from the Manual of the Am. Rwy. Eng. Assoc, 1915 Ed. § 361. MISCELLANEOUS STRUCTURES AND BUILDINGS. 389 be a minimum of dripping at the faucet and that th
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