. Railroad construction, theory and practice; a text-book for the use of students in colleges and technical schools, and a hand-book for the use of engineers in field and office . hdump the coal on to a conveyor which conveys it up and dropsit into the bin, from which it may fall either into the tender orinto an elevated conveyor car which runs it across a system ofparallel tracks and dumps it into a tender, spotted there for thepurpose. Incidentally, such a plant usually has also an ashconveyor onto which ashes are dumped from the engine. Thisconveyor carries the ashes to a place where the co
. Railroad construction, theory and practice; a text-book for the use of students in colleges and technical schools, and a hand-book for the use of engineers in field and office . hdump the coal on to a conveyor which conveys it up and dropsit into the bin, from which it may fall either into the tender orinto an elevated conveyor car which runs it across a system ofparallel tracks and dumps it into a tender, spotted there for thepurpose. Incidentally, such a plant usually has also an ashconveyor onto which 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 ]ess, with one fireproof door more windows, having wire glass. This room contains arow of pumps, one for each kind of t)il; 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 PITCH 1:12. 16 VI ABOUT I^FORCED CONCRETE BEAMS. 20o:: WIRE GLASS WINDOW i REINFORCED CONCRETE X OPENING FOR VENTIUAJIONWITH WIRE NETTING. Us* ■13 BRICK WALL. .SLIDING DOORTIN CLAD \ FOR PjPING OIlJ SLOPE V2y FROM TANK PIPE FOR EACHKIND OF OIL, ::f BASE OF RAIL CONCRETE 6s ■ .-i-v-.■:-■■■-, ■.•■y|- I ■■■-|:riNfiPRft fi ».-—J *24* -k 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 throug
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