File:Design of the freight yard of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Scranton, Pa. (1907) (14574226429).jpg

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Title: Design of the freight yard of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad at Scranton, Pa.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Clement C. (Clement Clarence), 1882-1947
Subjects: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company Railroad yards Theses
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ter. Scrap rails were laid across the open spaces between thesebuttresses and the trapezoicial top of concrete built on these, thussaving a large amount of masonry. The center v/alls are tied togetheiwith old rails 10 ft. center to center, the ends.of which are im-bedded in the walls. The old rails in the bottom of the pits projectone half inch above the concrete in order to form a scraping surfacefor the crane bucket. Other details will be made clear by a studyof Plate Vi. The reason for adopting so elaborate a design is obviouslythat the large number of engines to be cared for daily demanded it.The capacity is fouteen locomotives, with a possibility ff sixteenat one time, and this seems to be sufficient for all probable deraandsl, A plan used by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroadat Galesburg, 111., is similar except that the ashes, instead ofsliding into the pits, are collected on a concrete platform at thebottom of the slo^.e. The car track is at such an elevation that the
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25 il ashes can be readily shovelled by hand into the cars from the plat-form. This scheme has a .lower first cost but is less economicalin handling the ashes since several men are reciuired to shovel theashes in the one case, whereas in the type adopted, one man canoperate the crane. At present the freiij;ht engines are storea on an uncoveredstorage circle having twenty-one stalls and situated in the eastend of the yard. This is a temporary structure, since it is proposedto construct another roundhouse to the eas^ of the present one.The framework is entirely of wood sills, except that of the centerpier which is of concrete with a four foot square base. Fig.l showsthe general appearance of half of the storage circle filled withlocomot ives. The roundhouse is a full circle containing forty-eight stalls.Each stall is equipped with air and water pipes for the cleaningand filling of locomotives. The proposed roundhouse will containsixty stalls similar to these. The turntable at the center

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