Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
BIG YARD At BRUNSWICK
Facts ana Figures Concerning This
important Work.
OPERATIONS 10 BEGIN SOON
When Yards Are Completed They
Will Afford Terminal Facilities
Equal to Any in the World

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Equal to Any in the World
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
Co.. has awarded the contract for the
enlargement of its terminal facilities
at Brunswick, Nd, to +. H. Clement
and Co, of Philadelphia. Fol- the
handling Of the %esstbornd freight the
new yard will be west OF the present
one and will extend from Brunswick
to Knoxville. on property between the
main tracks and the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal.
Work will BEGIN at once, and when
completed will Re about double the
facilities for handling busisness, Civ
ing yard track capacity for aooot 1900
cars. The cost will probably be be-
tween 100000 and $3.50. 600. About
80 miles of new ward tracks will be
laid. and the main line tracks through
the entire yard will be increased from
two to four, the additional ones being
used exclusively for freight trains.
Each track will be about two and a
quarter miles long. The Brunswick
terminal will. il is claimed, he equal
to any in the world.
The new yard will be used for
properly classifying the eastbound
freight, which is now being handled
in the same yard with the west bound
freight Separation vii greatly facili-
tate the work. The improvement
will reduce yard congestion in west
bound movement, not only at Bruins
wick, but at other terminals east of
the mountains. Mr.. ID. ID. Carothers,
chief engineer, aud Mr.. A. M. Kins-
charge of the work.
In 1899 the present yard east OF
Brunswick was begun and was COM
pleted in 1891. 1t was established
there because the company were I'M.
able to secure necessary ground at
M~artinsburg TO extend the yard there.
This yard covers about 20 acres and
consists of SO tracks, each having d
capacity of 40 cars, or a total capacity
of 2, 100. and a yard for handling local
freight, with a capacity of 400 cars.
Ii is provided with a freight house.
and transfer shed, engine house,
pump house, coal tipple s%torehouse
ctr.
The new eastbonnd yard will be
known as a hump, yard The
hump is about in the middle.
There will be IS receiving tracks
with a capacity of Go cars each, aud
Sc .easthound classification tracks
with cspacltv of 1875 cars. There
will be an %eastbound solid train
ward of four tracks of 65 cars each.
or a total capacity of 260 cars. These
tracks are to he used after the trains
have been made up and ready for
movement.
. There Will also be a car repair yard
of seven tracks with a capacity of $50
cars and an eastbound and westbound
caboose track, where cabooses are
placed when not in service. The new
e%astbound yard, therefore, will have
a total capacity for Z. 900 ears. Trains
bound east will pull into the receiving
yard at Knoxville, the west end the
caboose will be cut off the train and
run by gravity on the caboose { acf
along the sorth side, the engine beipg
cut off at the east end of the vard,
running back on the caboose track
ana getting the caboose, and thence
proceeding along what is known as
the engine track TO the engine house.
TIE train will then be pulled up on
the hump which is elevated 70
feet and 3 inches, and the cars shifted
into classification tracks, just east Of
the hump. This process is kept
mp until each track contains a train
defined TO Washington, Baltimore.
Philadelphia. New York. ee. They
are taken out bv an engine coming
from TIE engine house BY the visit
bound light-engine track, and the
eaboose is shifted on the rear of the
train as it passes the east end OF thi.
yard.
TIL re will be a 32-lever interlock
ing machine located at the west end
OF the yard. The yard will be we'll
lighted by electricity, the lights be-
ing strung IN a line OF poles run-
ming through the center OF The yard.