The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-03-04
IOWA CENTRAL CAR
SHOPS BUILT HER.
oskALoosA WILL GET A BIG
SLICE OF REPAIR WORK.
SIX BUILDINGS WILL co UP
Much of the Work That Has Hereto
fore Been Taken TO Marshall
town viii Be Cared For
In This City.


One OF the many improvements to
be made in Oskaloosa this season by
the Iowa Central railway, is the cree
tion OF new. Car repair shops. The
lold shops which have Deen located
linear the passenger station win be re-
moved to new location near the
Iround house. The work of clearing
the grounds for the new car shops is
lnow in progress, under the superyis-
ion of Car Foreman A. f. Morton.
I The location OF the new shops is an
ideal one. They will be placed north
of the new steel water tank and a lit.
tie southeast of the round house, be-
tween the tracks leading to the round
house and the coal chutes. Accord
ling to the plans which are in the
hands of Mr.. Morton, six new frame
buildings will be erectsd.i ! Each build.
ing will be about forty feet long, Be
sides the six buildings, casting racks
will be erected and the tracks will be
piped so that the air brakes can. be
tested and repaired here: 4~,t,.,tf
oAll kinds OF repair work will be
done in the new Oskaloosa shops, and
hereafter there will be no necessity'of
sending cars to the Marshalltown
shops to be made over. All OF this
work will be done here. gAll of the
Iair brakes will be tested here which
has never been done before. The only
advantage the Marshalltown repair
shops will have over the Oskaloosa
shops will be the paint shop facilities.
( The coach yards that have been 10,
Gated south of the passenger station
Twill be relocated near the new repair
lshops, and all coaches which when not
in use on. the road will be sent to
the coach tracks. The location Of the
shops is in what is called the new
yards and when the shops are removed
from the old yards the latter will bt
for switching entirely,
| The removal of the coach yards to
their new location will in the near flu.
lture mean the erection of an ice house
and coal house for the storage OF
anthracite for the passenger coaches
4 From eighteen to twenty men are
now employed by the car repair de
5partment in OskaloOsa and with the
icompletion of the new shops. the work
lis sure to be increased and more men
added. When the shops are complet
led the northern part of the city will
be busy place with the car shops
where all kinds of work can be done
shops, where big per cent of the re,
pairing to the. motive power of the
road can be. made .... .,l
The management has placed an or.
der with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works of Pittsburg, for twelve new
freight engines of the 200 class,
which were last fall put in service on
1.-THE road, The new engines will be the
same with the exception that they will
have higher drive wheels. The six
i engines which were secured last fall
have given excellent satisfaction sc
Ian order for twelve more was placed
with the Baldwin people. They are
first-class freight engines and are ca
,ipable of pulling big loads. On ac
count of the large number of orders
I ahead the engines viii not be ready
before July or August. The Central
has also placed an order with the
Baldwin company for six new passen
lger locomotives The specifications o.
the new engines are not known here
but they are sure 10 be first-class en-
gines and built for speed, as they
I will be used on, the through passen
Igers Numbers s and 6 and NUMBERS ]
and 2. wv
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