Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-16
% ABANDON CLARION
Great Western Will Enlarge Its
Shops at Oelwein by
$250,00O.
Said That Investment Planned
for Clarion Will Be Made
at 0elwein.
Opposition OF Fl. Dodge Citizens
to Removal Of N. c. { Fl. D.
Shops the Cause.
Special to Times-Republican.

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Oelwein, May 16.-Enormous eXpen-
ditures will be made by the c. G. w. in
improvements at the shops here this
summer. The Record in it's issue this
week states that the plan to build ma
chine shops at Clarion has been aban
doned, owing to the attitude OF the
people of Fort Dodge, and the money to
have been spent there will be used in
| improving and charging the shops
here. Over q quarter of a million dol
lars will be expended during the sum-
mer.
General Superintendent Goodell and
Superintendent of Motive Power Van
Austen were in the city Tuesday and
Wednesday in consultation with the
company's officials, at which time the
plans We're gone over. and the local Off
Gals made acquainted with the work to
be done there this year.
The Improvements to be made are
authenticity given out as follows:
The main building known as the ma
dition of $50 feet on the east end. This
building will then extend to the creek
and will be 1882 feet long.
The paint shop will also be extended
to the creek, adding nearly 800 feet
to it.
The building now occupied as the
freight car shop will be extended north
80 feet and east 200 feet. The new adj
dition and the present freight car shop
will be used as the coach room and the
whole of the 1882 foot building will be
used by the machinsts and boilermak-
ers. On the north of this new addition
of 90X2O0 feet will be another building
100x100 in size.
The blacksmith shop will be made
twice its size by the addition of
building 1OOX100 feet.
The wheel house will be moved to
another part of the yards, will be made
twice it's size, fitted with new machin-
cry and will be more conveniently To-
Gated. Work to be done will go in at
one end of this building and the finished
product out at the other.
The power house will be enlarged to
twice its size by additions on the north
and on the south of it. New boilers and
additional machinery will be added
to 1t.
On the north of the blacksmith shop
will be built the new scrap bins, where
scrap material will be stored These
bins will be 800 feet long by fifty feet
On each side, with trackage in the CEN
ter.
BY summing up these additions it
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the shop yards will be about double in
size. Added to this the yards are to
be filled with gravity tracks where hun
dreds of car repairers will work on dis
abled freight cars.
1t is estimated that $500 men will
work comfortably in the new shops.
The yards will be made three times
their present size. The new yards will
extend from the end of the present
yards north to the brick yard, which
will make them about two miles long.
They will be built on an improved plan
so that work will be handled with the
utmost dispatch. From the subway
(known as the viaducD three tracks
will be added the whole length of the
yards, making about twenty tracks in
all All trains entering Oelwein from
the four divisions will be delivered at
the north end of the yards and from
there handled by the switch crews. An
onther switch engine and crew will be
added. New tracks for passenger trains
will also be put in.
1t will be necessary to put 10000 GU
bic yards of dirt into the new yards.
The extent of this work may be imag-
ined when it is said that train after
train load has been dumped into the
shop yards during the past month and
only $4,000 cubic yards up to this time
have been placed there.
When these yards are completed they
will be practically unlimited in capacity |
and four times as much business as
row can be handled.