The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-29
RAILROA |! NEWS.
G.. r. J0ughins Tells About Sa
Bernardino Shops.
Complete Transformation Of tn:
Existing Shop Facilities.
WILL COST s225,OOO.
Wooden Trusses Will Be Used
in Construction.
Complete Arrangements Made
For Fighting Fires.

G. r. Joughins, mechanical superin-
tendent for the Santa Fe coast lines,
has furnished to the Railway Age de-
tailed description with numerous Illus
trations. of the new Santa Fe shops UNI
der process of construction at San Ber-
nardinO.
1t is interesting to note that while
nearly all of the structural work on
the big new shops at Topeka is steel,
the buildings at San Bernardino are OF
less expensive construction. In the San
Bernardino buildings, wooden roof trus-
ses are used throughout, with S-inch
steel columns, except in the paint shop,
where wooden columns are used.
Up to the time that the new buildings
were commenced at SaE Bernardino.
there was a 7-stall machine shop there.
Now this is all transformed. Not only
are new buildings being erected, and
additions being built to old ones, but by
the removal of old buildings and track
there is practically complete rear
rangement of the entire San Bernardino
shop system. The Santa Fe coast lines
of the Santa Fe aggregate LII miles
of track. and have 230 locomotives and
5000 cars. New equipment is being con-
tinually added, and the increasing bust
ness of the California lines has made
the present additions Imperative.
| The new construction proposed in
cludes a car shop and mill. z75 by ITO
feet; a coach paint shop. 80 by 275 feet,
and q transfer table between these two
shops, to be 10 by $50 feet. An addition
10 by 200 feet is being made to the
machine shop, and new transfer ia
BILE, to be 40 by $40 feet, is building. The
old car shop, which was located oppo-
site the machine shop, is to be convert
ed into a boiler shop and the present
10-stall roundhouse will have an addi-
ton of 10 stalls, doubling it's size. Other
buildings to be constructed are brass
foundry and tin shop. SO by 125 feet;
a pattern storage house, 80 by 60 feet,
and a fire service house. The Office will
be moved from it's old location, also the
upholstery building, which will be placed
near the new car shop. The newer
buildings, with yards, depot ground. ETC.,
will occupy a tract $3.50 feet long by
about $50 feet wide. The estimated cost
of all improvements was $225,0OO, and
the contract for the machine shop ad-
ditiOn was undertaken by b. Lantry Il
Sons for $107, 900. 81 ~
There are many additions to and al
terations of the yard Ptfackage, the most
| important being the installation of a 10
track repair yard atithe east end of the
grounds. These repair tracks are to be
placed 20 feet apartj excepting that
levery other space viii be 30 feet. and a
narrow gauge material track run along
the center. These yards Will have a
| working track length. of 5000 feet. The
| five south tracks will be supplied with
air for their entire length, the piping
being connected to the 6-fnch air main
running from the storage. TANK at Ino
| compressor, which main also supple.
by means of branch pipes the car and
machine shops and the roundhouse
while separate Pinch pipe will supply
the brass foundry and tin shop.
Drainage is provided for by an S-incf
| main sewer, starting at the roundhouse
and running east on Third street, into
which empties an 8-inch sewer from the
machine shop group, also one from the
car and paint shop and a small sewer
from the depot. The water supply sys-
| tenn is most complete and consists of q
network of and inch mains connect
| ing with each other and leading to all
| buildings and yards. The water is take1
from the city main by 6-inch pipe at
| Mount Vernon street. A storage reser
voir was placed near the roundhouse
from which runs a 10-inch pipe feeding
! the shop mains.
| The arrangements for fire protection
are unusually perfect. A large build
| ing carefully designed for the purpose
will house the firemen and apparatus.