Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-18

all openings win be deeply paneled
with enriched plaster moulding. large
ceiling light viii fill the center panel Of
the ceiling for about two-thirds of the
length of the room, terminating with
rounded ends made OF art glass. Above
the cornice line, at each end of the
room, viii be artistically designed
clocks set In positions to be seen easily
from any part of the room. The base
and walnscut of the general waiting
room and connecting corridors will be
of marble and scagllola, selected for
color and tone, and in harmony with
the color scheme throughout the gem
eral waiting room and corridor This
color scheme VIII also be used in all OF
the second story corridors and the OBJ
servation corridor, on the second floor,
the observation corridor in front of the
building will have arched openings,
and on the opposite side there will be
windows filled with art glass, appro-
priately designed All OF the interior
wood finish throughout the building will
be In Quarter-sawed oak, finished in
keeping with the color scheme.
FIREPRooF THROUGHOUT.
The building Is to be fireproof
throughout--the exterior walls of brick
and the interior columns, floor glrders
and the floors OF reinforced concrete.
All of the trusses supporting the roof
viii be OF stee and the entire concourse
and train shed viii be of steel. having
the roof covered with asbestos roofing.
The building Is to cost shout s450.000,
and win be built from plans made IN
the office OF J. RI. Wallace, assistant
chief engineer of the Southern Pacific,
under the direction az u. j. Patterson,
architect for that company.
Besides the new union station, the
yards and terminal facilities of the
Hartman lines Mt Salt Lake City, are
being rearranGed and extended. This
work is now nearly finished. More
trackase and larger terminals were
needed because OF the great increase
in freight and passenger traffic. due 10
the rapid growth Of Salt Lake City
and the development of the resuu ces OF
the surrounding country. and also in
pact because of the building of the
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake,
which uses the yards and terminal ia
ciltties of the Oregon Short Line at
Salt Lake City.
NORTH AND SOUTH WARDS.
AS shown on the accompanying plan.
the new terminal yards are composed
of two parts, called the north yard and
the south yard In the north yard are
the switching. repair, roundhouse, coal
ing and coach cleaning tracks. while
the south yard contains the passenger
station tracks, transfer and local
freight tracks. All incoming fretght
trains are sent directly to the north
yard, where distribution is made as
required by car lading. All outbound
trans are made up In this yard. In
coming passenger trains approach the
passenger station from both north and
south directly over main line tracks.
The combined yards when complete
will contain in all ass miles of track
with room for 400 freight cars and
ass passenger coaches. The extreme
length of the two yards is 2,sS miles
and the area covered 1884, acres. most
of which was acquired for this purpose.
The average gradient through the yards
Is about 0.3 per cent. %ne passenger
tracks arc laid with SO-lb. and the
freight tracks with 70-lb. rails with
No. and No. o frogs All tracks con-
Meeting the north and south yards AT
Fifth North street are protected by an
lnterlocking plant. The crossing OF
the Oregon Short Line and the main
line of the Rio Grande Western on
Ninth South and Fifth West streets Is
also protected by an interlockine plant,
An switches except the ones controlled
by these interlooking plants are oper-
ated by hand. The entire yards are
hallasted with gravel and drain to the
city's drainage system.
ADJUNCTs TO BUILDING.
The new terminal facilities In the
north yard include an Soft, 20-stall
brick engine house; 60O-ton coal chute
with six pockets and cable hoist, new
foundry; car repair shops; store house;
coach cleaning plant; Pullman linen
house. and new ice house of 5000 tons
capacity, equipped with an electric ele-
vator OF the most improved type. In
the south yards freight house, hide
house. ice house. transfer platform anu
heavy freight platform have been
built.
AS indicated by the accompanying
plans, tho freight house Is OF brick,
concrete and steel construction. IL Is
500 H. lons by 80 r. wide. with a plat
form l6 H. wide running the fun length
OF the building OH the west, or track.
side. The south i57 feet OF the build
Ing is two stories high, the upper sto-
nv occupied by the local freight offices,
The remaining 500 feet the freight
shed proper. IS one story. a basement
20 It, X so II. under the south end holds
hot water boiler and coal bins. The
whole building Is OF freproof construc-
ton, the floors are OF reinforced con-
oTata and the r0of also OF reinforced