File:Design of the freight yard of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Scranton, Pa. (1907) (14760551402).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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of operation is ap-preciably Jess, since coal can be handled for two cents per tonin this manner as against three to nine cents by the mechanicalelevator method. Everything considered, the trestle or inclinedplane type seemed to be the best for the purpose. The sand dryer is on the sar>e trestle as the coal pockets ,and is located at their east end. It is of the ordinary type, siftedsand being dropped from cars on the track above dov/n through a net-work of steam pipes which thoroughly dry it, and it is gathered ina bin at the bottom, from whence it is carried by bucket elevatorsto the bins sbove. From these bins, the supply spouts pour it di-rectly into the sand chambers of the engines. The bottom of thesand bins is on the same elevation as the bottom of the coal pockets,hence, the sand runs readily to the locomotive. The area of thecoils is about 100 sq, ft., yet the apparatus dried two car loadsin about tv./elve hours. As the design and construction of the cinder pit is somewhat
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I I 22 out of the ordinary, it wil3 be described more in detail. Plate VI ,shows the details and the layout. The generul scheme consists oftwo large rectant,ul&r concrete troughs, 400 ft. long, 9 ft . 7 l/2in. wide, 8 ft. 4 in. deep, and 25 ft. 6 in. center to center. Onthe outside walls of these troughs are the engine tracks, so i^lacedthat the discharged ashes shall slide dovm the concrete Z-iope intothe rectangular basins. Between these basins is a track on which th<cars are loaded by a clarn-shelJ hoist from a five ton gantry crane. The outside wall of the trapezoidal area at the to is madeup of a nar^ow inside wall 3 ft. wide with buttresses 1 ft. 10 in.by 4 ft. 10 it:, projecting outv/ard and placed ten feet center tocenter. 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 whic

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