Arizona republican., 1912-12-17
Superintendent Scott of the Arizona Eastern Believes They Will Be Ready for Occupancy Within the Next Ninety Days
PERMANENT KIND
 OF CONSTRUCTION
General Description of the Appearance of the Struc- lures and Yards When the Plans Have Been Fully Carried Out

Though rapid progress has been made on the new shops of the Arizona | Eastern which will undoubtedly some | day be the great shops of the South 1 ern Pacific main line through Phoe- 1 nix, the work has been done chiefly 1 below the surface of the ground. The 1 center of operations is at point | which would be near Fifteenth and 1 Buchanan streets if those thorough 1 fares were extended to an intersec ton.
 One cannot get a good idea of the magnitude of the work to be done without a reference to the blue prints which leave no doubt that the work has been laid out for the future and for a much bigger system than the Arizona Eastern and for q time when Phoenix will be a much larger city than it is now, and for the handling of traffic of far heavier volume than the average Phoenix man now dreams Of When the yards are completed hundreds of trains can be handled at one time.
 The plans contemplate a network  street through the two ranches which the company has bought, the Light burne tract the more recently Tenn porary tracks are already laid for the handling of material for the huge turntable and for the great round house. only one unit of which will be- immediately built
 The most visible sign of operations is the pit for the turntabe which is great excavation and which will be filled with the complicated machinery for the moving of the eighty-foot turntable which will be one of the largest in the country. It will handle not only the largest of the engines now constructed but allowance isl made for the building of bigger en- zines than are now contemplated. TheI table and the machinery for it are now on the way.
 The pits have been dug and theI concrete foGndatiOns for the piers or columns of the roundhOuse have been put in There VII be at first only fourteen stalls witH an aggregate length of ninety-siX feet That will be only a unit and not large one as the blue prints show. Four of the northern stalls will be used tempor- arily for boiler shops which will later | be built elsewhere nearby.
 The roundhouse will be of the new est style of construction, unlike many | roundhouses now in existence. It will consist of a series of concrete piers 1 joined together by concrete walls and the whole covered with glass. The l IL Co, oh a the general plan of construction can l be understood.
 East of the roundhouse will be the machine shops The permanent foun- | dationS will be put in at once and the structure will be covered with a per manent roof but the walls for the time being will be of corrugated iron. Later they will be replaced with per manent concrete walls. The machin- cry for the shops is now on the way. | There will not be much heavy lift ing or pulling or hauling about the
 turntable, the roundhOuse or in the machine shops Of course. heavy monstrous bodies will be lifted, moved
 and shifted, but that will all be done
 by machinery and operated by elec-
 tricity, the lines for which have al
 ready been put in. Likewise gas and
 water will be extended to all the
 buildings.
 The stalls of the roundhouse will be so arranged that the great engines
 may be trussed up and lifted while
 there is an arrangement for dropping
 the wheels that repairs may be made
 South of the roundhouse. at some
 distance are foundations for three
 large tanks, two for water and one
 for oil. each holding many thousands
 of gallons.
 There is one section of the work anC
 large and important one that is not specified by the blue prints. The I southern part of the eastern tract 1: low and a few days ago water was
 standing over it. That is being filled with gravel which long trains ar' , constantly hauling in over the tenn porary tracks.
 Beside this mountains of grave
 will be needed for the concrete work ;, That is being delivered from two side over temporary tracks as near as pos :, sible to the places where it is needed - Each car is dumped between tn | tracks and the next is run as close t it as possible and dumped so that tn ' field appears to be ridged with lon - and high lines of gravel convergin z. toward the machine shops and tn
 covers and conceals the tracks. Tn
 rails, when this work is done. will D
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