The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-08
1. & N. IS MAKING BIG IMPROVEMENTS Will Move Into New Shops About January P, 1912 LOCATED AT BOYLES Building Own Power Plant, Large Machine Shop, and Will Install
 Heating Plant for Own
 Buildings
LOCATED AT BOYLEs

The work of moving the local shops or the Louisville and Nashville railroad from Eighteenth street and Railroad ave nue to the new quarters at Boyles VIII begin about January 2e, 1912, according to unofficial information given out yester- day, and it is expected that the plants will be in operation by the latter part or March or first of April of next year. These new shops, representing an az gregate expenditure of nearly $lOoo,oOo' are located on the property of the Louis vile and Nashville line at Boyles, and October 15, 1910 marked the breaking Of ground for their erection. The machinery, building equipments and provisions for the disposition of waste to be installed are of the most modern type, fact that will decrease to minimum the number of men necessary to keep the shops In operation. The nucleus of the finished group consists of the roundhouse, sand house and coal chute. which were built some time before the beginning of the new structures.
 The largest of the improvements is the machine shop measuring 270 by ITO feet. It is constructed of wood with concrete foundations, but the finest building is the $135,0O0 power house, one of the most up to date and most completely equipped buildings of it's kind in the south. Not a particle of wood has been used in the construction of this power plant, brick and steel with solid concrete foundations con- stitutihg the materials, and it will supply the entire Boyles yards, the central of fees, the passenger station, arc lights and all other electric fixtures used by the railroad in it's many departments. A conduit from the plant will be run into the city, and from this place the hot air heating of the shops will also be con- ducted. This makes it possible to have fire only in the yards in the power house. with the exception of the blacksmith shop, where the air congresses for testing the engines are installed One of the latest modes of waste elimination to be put into use will be the blow pipes that convey the sawdust and shavings right off the saws in the blaming mill into the furnace in the power house, distance of about 50 feet away. It is estimated that the wood shavings from this source will all
 
 This broadening of the Louisville and Nashville railroad facilities in the Bir mineham district includes an electric transfer table of concrete, measuring 325 by 50 feet, a concrete drainage aqueduct or culvert of nearly a mile in length and ten buildings and sheds. The fol- lowing are the structures: Machine shop, wood, with concrete floor; power house. 90x1O0 feet; blaming mill, 15Ox250 feet; lumber shed, concrete piers, 5Ox15O feet blacksmith shop, 60x1S0 feet where fires in the blast furnaces will be allowed; paint shop, SOx6O feet of wood and brick; car repair she'd 350x15O feet; general of fees. S0x115 feet; oil house, entirely of brick, concrete and steel, 4GXS0 feet; wooden fue rattler, 20x6O feet.
 Besides this, there will be nine and a half miles of tracks in the Boyles yards for switching and main line transfers.
 T. k. Brooks, superintendent of ths south and north Alabama division of the Louisville and Nashville road and rhe mineral branches, is the official head of shops, and Joseph Ashworth is master mechanic.