. The Street railway journal . yards are shown on the ac-companying diagram, and cover about 10 acres of ground. Sevenlarge buildings are now completed, and a drying kiln and a numberof smaller buildings are under construction. A side track from the Baltimore & Ohio and P. C. C. & St. brings lumber to the yards, and gives the best facilitiesfor making shipments of finished cars. At the west of the side trackwhere the car timber is unloaded, is now being erected a very finish. This arrangement brings the finished lumber the nearestpossible to the point where it is worked up. North a
. The Street railway journal . yards are shown on the ac-companying diagram, and cover about 10 acres of ground. Sevenlarge buildings are now completed, and a drying kiln and a numberof smaller buildings are under construction. A side track from the Baltimore & Ohio and P. C. C. & St. brings lumber to the yards, and gives the best facilitiesfor making shipments of finished cars. At the west of the side trackwhere the car timber is unloaded, is now being erected a very finish. This arrangement brings the finished lumber the nearestpossible to the point where it is worked up. North and in line with the machine and cabinet shop is one ofthe erecting shops 160 ft. x 104 ft. with a wing 48 ft. square. Thisbuilding has ten tracks laid in a cement floor. Here the cars areerected and painted ready for varnishing. Along the front of the buildings named runs a 70-ft. electrictransfer table, which is equipped with electric motor, and so ar-ranged that cars are easily and quickly handled by electric power,. PLAN OF WORKS AND VIEWS IN THE SHOPS OF THE JEWETT CAR CO. large drying kiln 40 ft. x 100 ft., and near this, on the oppositeside of the track, stands a large building for storing dry the dry-lumber building is the machine shop, which is builtin U shape, fronting 136 ft. on the transfer track. The southwing running back 176 ft. x 48 ft. wide, is equipped withmodern heavy car-building machinery. This part of the machineshop is used principally for the heavy work. The north wing ex-tends back 144 ft. x 48 ft., and is equipped with the most modernmachinery for getting out interior finish. The rear end of thiswing is used as a cabinet room. It will be noted that the above arrangement is such as to facili-tate the handling of material. Cabinet work is in these depart-ments prepared complete for erection. Between the two wingsof this building is a dry kiln used for drying lumber for interior either from one department to another or on to trains for ship-men
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