The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-19
RAILROAD NEWS.
Orient Road Completes Plans
for Wichita Shops.
Ten Buildings to Be Erected
Without Delay.
sTILWELL IS HOME.
Spending a Few Days in Kansas
City.
Says He Has the Money to Build
the Road.

According to the Wichita Eagle. the
detailed plans for the proposed Orient
shops at that city have been received,
and work on the buildings will begin
The engine or round house is made up
of twenty-five stalls and forms nearly
complete circle. Within this will be the
latest devices. for the care of locomo-
tives, while the usual turn-t table ap-
proach is there. This great circular
building with its many black smoke
pipes lies farthest south in the group
of structures between Seneca avenue
and the innumerable switches that ira
verse the country to the southwest. In
this board of switches the plans show
that there are twenty-six parallel
tracks
The machine shop is the next principal
structure, lying just north of the engine
house. 1t is $50 feet long and 125 feet
feet broad. On the southwest corner OF
the machine shop connected with the
just east of the power house apart from
it, but connected with the machine shop,
is the wheel shop The boiler shop is
in the eastern end of the machine shop.
the electric in the middle and the black
smith shop at the western extremity.
To the north of the machine shop
building is a number of perpendicularly
laid tracks that lead from a transfer
table. an apparatus to enable the men
to take an engine from the boiler room
to the electrical shop by simply running
it out on the transfer carriage, which
is literally a fiat car, and taking it to
another set of rails.
Next to the north is the car shops,
10 by 200 feet. There are also tracks
running from this to the transfer table
lying between it and the machine shop.
On the east of the car shops is the
paint shop, 80 by $50 feet On the west
end of the car shops is the wood mill,
the dimensions of which are 100 by 800
feet Just north of the wood mills apart
and separate is a large lumber storage
building. The Office store is west of the
car shops.
In the plans there are shown an en-
Enlistment to come later as affairs be-
come settled a pretty little park across
Seneca avenue, quarter OF mile from
the shops, by which runs the street car
line, connecting the shops with the heart
OF the CITY.
A. E. Stilwell, the president Of the
Orient, who has just returned from Eu-
the funds for the completion Of his road
have been secured. Mr.. Stilwell is now
| in Kansas City, and will leave Saturday
with his party on special car for Mex
"Most satisfactory progress is being
! well. 1.-The circle of investors in this en-.
terprise:, both in this country and abroad,
completion of the road are assured and
we expect, and will, finish and operate the
system as soon as men and material can
The building of the system has prog
ressed rapidly in the last few months. En-
gineers were in the field nineteen months
| ago. Large sections of roadbed have been
graded and rail laying is under way In
| Kansas, Texas and Mexico. Thirty miles
! of the line from Harper, Kan. south and
| 155 miles in Mexico is in active operation.
| Some million dollars has already been
! expended and it is believed that the entire
well, the terminus. will be in operation
| within three years. The terminal facilities
| planned for Kansas City will involve an
| expenditure of million dollars.