. American engineer and railroad journal . Engines in cominginto the round-house must first pass over the cinder pit beforetaking on coal and water. This arrangement is necessary, asconsiderable room is required in which to handle the toolsin cleaning the grates of a hard coal burning engine. In frontof the round-house is the oil house, 81 by 33 ft., which is con-structed entirely of concrete, the roof as well as the wallsand floors. Back of the machine, erecting and boiler shops, are the storehouse and office building and the blacksmith shop. The latterbuilding is 300 ft. long and 80 ft. wide
. American engineer and railroad journal . Engines in cominginto the round-house must first pass over the cinder pit beforetaking on coal and water. This arrangement is necessary, asconsiderable room is required in which to handle the toolsin cleaning the grates of a hard coal burning engine. In frontof the round-house is the oil house, 81 by 33 ft., which is con-structed entirely of concrete, the roof as well as the wallsand floors. Back of the machine, erecting and boiler shops, are the storehouse and office building and the blacksmith shop. The latterbuilding is 300 ft. long and 80 ft. wide, with concrete walls8 ins. thick surrounding a framework of steel, as illustratedin Fig. 4. The store house is 300 ft. long and 50 ft. wide, con-structed entirely of concrete, with walls 4 ins. thick. One endof the building is two stories high, the upper floor of whichis to be used for offices. Surrounding the building is a plat-form built to the height of a car door, and it is accessible from 342 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD Fig. 4. two tracks, one on either side, which lead to the transfertable. The power house is another building, with floors, walls androof of concrete. No attempt has been made at ornamentingany of the buildings, with the exception of the power building is shown in Fig. 5 and is 107 ft. long. 106 and 25 ft. high. A reservoir made of the same materialis located at one side of the power house and will be used forstoring rain water. All pipiugand wiring is to be placed ina concrete subway running theentire length of the machine,erecting and boiler shops. Thistunnel extends through to theround house and has twobranches, one to the black-smith shop and the other tothe power house. In the present plant concreteconstruction has been used tothe complete exclusion of ma-sonry, except in the machine,erecting and boiler shops. In-stead of using trap rock ip themixture, as is the ordinarypractice in concrete con-struction, either cinders,
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