. Railroad structures and estimates . ^_ * =_ _12 6 Seat Seat V --?—- Shelter10xl2 ^ Platform 60 ft. lg. Fig. 49. Shelter Station. Platform Shelter.—Approximate cost per running foot $8 to $12. Umbrella type of platform shelter 16 feet wide, with main posts14-foot centers, ridge plate 12 X 2, rafters and ties 3 X 6 with4 X 3 supports, and 4 X 6 run beams, roof covered withlj-inch matched boarding, and galvanized iron, ready roofing orshingles on top; the main posts are supported on round, flattedcedar sills about 6 feet below the platform, braced both sides, andheld laterally by the platform j
. Railroad structures and estimates . ^_ * =_ _12 6 Seat Seat V --?—- Shelter10xl2 ^ Platform 60 ft. lg. Fig. 49. Shelter Station. Platform Shelter.—Approximate cost per running foot $8 to $12. Umbrella type of platform shelter 16 feet wide, with main posts14-foot centers, ridge plate 12 X 2, rafters and ties 3 X 6 with4 X 3 supports, and 4 X 6 run beams, roof covered withlj-inch matched boarding, and galvanized iron, ready roofing orshingles on top; the main posts are supported on round, flattedcedar sills about 6 feet below the platform, braced both sides, andheld laterally by the platform joists. The platform is made of3-inch plank on top of 11 X 3 joists on split cedar sills at about7-foot centers. 98 RAILROAD STRUCTURES AND ESTIMATES. Stations. The following frame stations range in price from $1000 to$3500, which is about the average run of ordinary way are not submitted as ideal schemes, but simply as sug-gestions as to size and cost in a general way, that may be variedas
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