. Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways, . e TRacK Fig. 194. PLAN OP BRICK STOREHOUSE FOR SUPPLIES. 310 BUILDING AND REPAIRING RAILWAYS, A brick storehouse is illustrated by Fig. oil room is paved with stone flagging, andno wood work is in the room except the windowframes; some roads provide for the storage ofoils in tanks set in the ground, the oil beingpumped out as required. C^/V7-£r/? OP GlOe TRBCK_ V STOR€ ROOM rOR^ h 3/9/siO I ^ • II I on Sfl/>^. &\ Z/A Fig. 195. P
. Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways, . e TRacK Fig. 194. PLAN OP BRICK STOREHOUSE FOR SUPPLIES. 310 BUILDING AND REPAIRING RAILWAYS, A brick storehouse is illustrated by Fig. oil room is paved with stone flagging, andno wood work is in the room except the windowframes; some roads provide for the storage ofoils in tanks set in the ground, the oil beingpumped out as required. C^/V7-£r/? OP GlOe TRBCK_ V STOR€ ROOM rOR^ h 3/9/siO I ^ • II I on Sfl/>^. &\ Z/A Fig. 195. PLAN OF STOREHOUSE FOR SAND. A sand house is illustrated by Fig. 195. Thedried sand is placed in a hopper A, and carriedby a current of air (which only takes up the finesand) to an elevated tank; from this tank thesand box on the locomotive is filled by gravity inthe same way that water is supplied to a tender. ASH PITS. To reduce the expense in loading ashes atroundhouses, air hoist ash pits have been intro-duced. Fig. 196 illustrates the method of usingcompressed air for this purpose. The bucket F STANDAEDS OF CONSTBUCTION. 311. li^m^wm Fig. 196. ELEVATIOM OF A BENT OP AN AIR HOIST ASH PIT. is placed under the locomotive when the ashesare drawn; it is then pushed down the inclinedtrack G to the position shown in Fig. 196, and isattached to the piston rod B which works in the^cylinder A; the attendant then turns a valve atE, and the compressed air causes the piston and 312 BUILDING AND REPAIRING RAILWAYS. piston rod B to rise in the cylinder A, thus liftingthe bucket F and the attached truck level with thetop of the car; another valve at E is then openedand the compressed air is admitted into the cyl-inder C drawing in the piston rod D, and bring-ing the cylinder A and bucket F over the bucket is then dumped and the ashes dis-charged into the car. The attendant then re-verses the air in cylinder C, and the cylinder Aand bucket F are brought back to the originalposi
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