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Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ureof freight and passenger car repair shops, it will be seen thatits location cannot be justly criticised. , Erecting and Machine Shop. One of the illustrations shows the cross section of this verylarge building, which is devoted entirely to erecting shop andmachine work. It is of the longitudinal type, three tracks run-ning the entire length of the erecting shop, which occupies 90 ft.on one side of the building. Adjacent to this is a heavy machinebay 60 ft. in width, back of which is another 60 ft. bay for thelighter tools. The building is over 600 ft. in length. Over the erecting shop there are two 4-motor girder cranes,each having a main hoist capacity of 75 tons and an auxiliarycapacity of 15 tons. In addition to this over the outside tracksthere are four, two on either side, 3-motor, 3-ton traveling wallcranes. Over the middle or heavy machine bay there is one3-motor girder crane, having a capacity of 10 tons and a span of 13 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL January, 1911-
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Januarv^ 1911. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL 15 S8 ft. As soon as the shop requirements indicate its necessityanother crane of similar capacity will be installed on the samerun-way. All cranes tlirouijliout the plant were built by Niles-Bcment-Pond. A very substantial steel construction forms the frame workof the building. The enclosing walls are constructed of i in.channel studding secured with iron straps to the steel girths andcovered with galvanized expanded metal wired on. To the ex-panded metal is applied four coats or layers of cement plaster,each ^ inch thick, making a wall of good weather resistingqualities and of sufficient thickness to embed the steel. A concrete floor has been provided in the erecting shop, whilein the machine bays the floor consists of a course of 3 in. Bur-nettizcd Oregon fir laid on tamped sand, the boards being nailedtogether. Over this sub-floor is laid a wearing surface of ij^ in.maple factory flooring. The roof of the building consists of 2

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