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 by Webb Walter Loring 1863-1941

Author:Webb, Walter Loring, 1863-1941
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Railroads
Publisher: New York, John Wiley & sons, inc. [etc., etc.]
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Caboose tracks should be so located, where conditions permit, that cabooses can be placed on and removed from trains in the order of their arrival, and should be so constructed that cabooses can be dropped by gravity onto the rear of trains made up for departure.

Scale tracks should be so located that weighing can be done with least delay and without drilling over scale. Where many cars are to be weighed they should pass separately over the scale by gravity, being weighed while in motion.

Coaling, ashpit, sand and engine tracks should be located on the route leading to and from the engine house and should provide sufficient storage for the reception of engines by the hostler. They should be so arranged that water, coal and sand can be taken and ashes disposed of in convenient rotation, and that switching engines may clean fires, take coal, water and sand and pass around waiting engines.

Bad-order tracks. Where cars are classified, one or more classification tracks, easy of access, should be provided for setting off cars in bad order, from which they may be readily removed to the repair tracks.

Repair tracks should preferably be connected at both ends and have a maximum capacity of about 15 cars each, spaced alternately 16 feet and 24 feet center to center and be connected conveniently to bad-order tracks.

Icing tracks should be so located that the work of shifting out, icing and classifying cars for movement can be performed in the least time.

The Main tracks of both single and double track roads should be located, if it is possible to so arrange, on the outside of yard, and the engine house, coaling station, etc., should be centrally located.

The Coach cleaning yard should be located near the terminal station. The tracks should be of sufficient, length to hold full trains, with a car cleaners' repair and supply building adjacent thereto.

Roadways. Where the freight house is on one side and a wall on the other, the minimum width of roadway should be 30 feet; but where a freight house is on one side and a team track or another freight house is on the other, the minimum clear width of roadway should be 40 feet.

A Transfer Station should be located at a point where traffic

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